News tagged with social rewards
Carrots are better than sticks for building human cooperation
Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Genetic variation cues social anxiety in monkeys and humans
A genetic variation involving the brain chemical serotonin has been found to shape the social behavior of rhesus macaque monkeys, which could provide researchers with a new model for studying autism, social anxiety and schizophrenia. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Growing smarter engineers with FarmVille
There are no agriculture majors at Missouri University of Science and Technology, but some engineering students on the campus have taken up virtual planting and harvesting through the social networking game ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Promises come at a price
Be careful what you promise people. You are not just obliging yourself to keep your promises; other people will hold you to account for them as well. Dutch-sponsored researcher Manuela Vieth investigated how the behaviour ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2009 |
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