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A critical review of Dunbar's social brain hypothesis
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC), 2016)Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis constitutes an influential position among those that relate the evolution of human cognition and sociality. In this work, we first present the essentials of the theory and discuss the ... -
Confianza y cooperación. Una perspectiva evolutiva.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Universidad de Málaga, 2013)En esta contribución pretendemos reivindicar la necesidad de tener en cuenta las relaciones de confianza a la hora de tratar de entender la evolución de la cooperación. En este artículo, tras motivar el interés de tener ... -
Deciding to cooperate in Northern Ghana: trust as an evolutionary constraint across cultural diversity.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Cambridge University Press, 2015)The upper-east and northern regions of Ghana offers a unique opportunity to study the influence of evolutionary social dynamics in making cooperation possible, despite cultural differences. These regions are occupied by ... -
Diversidad étnica, clanes y familias en Ghana: plataforma económica, social y cultural.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2014)El presente trabajo, realizado en algunos distritos del norte de Ghana como Bawku-este, Garu-Tampane y Bunkpurugu-Yunguo, trata de servir de ejemplo de cómo a través del emprendimiento social los sujetos organizan las redes ... -
Personal trust extends cooperation beyond trustees: a Mexican study
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Wiley, 2019)We studied 2 groups of workers from Oaxaca (Mexico) with different levels of income and education to investigate the role that the affective-based psychological mechanism of personal trust, as evolutionarily acquired, plays ... -
Personal trust increases cooperation beyond general trust.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (PLOS, 2014-08-22)In this paper we present a new methodology which, while allowing for anonymous interaction, it also makes possible to compare decisions of cooperating or defecting when playing games within a group, according to whether ... -
Testing the cultural group selection hypothesis in Northern Ghana and Oaxaca
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Cambridge University Press, 2016)We examine the cultural group selection (CGS) hypothesis in light of our fieldwork in Northern Ghana and Oaxaca, highly multiethnic regions. Our evidence fails to corroborate two central predictions of the hypothesis: that ... -
Trust and cooperation: a new experimental approach.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Wiley, 2013)Several theories within different disciplines emphasize the role of trust in fostering cooperation in human social life. Despite differences, the core of these notions of trust is affectively motivated loyalty, whichmakes ... -
Trust matters: a cross-cultural comparison of Northern Ghana and Oaxaca groups.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Frontiers, 2015)A cross-cultural analysis of trust andd cooperation networks in Northern Ghana (NGHA) and Oaxaca (OAX) was carried out by means of ego networks and interviews. These regions were chosen because both are inhabited by several ... -
Trust, Social Capital and the Evolution of Human Sociality.
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2012)In this contribution we want to integrate conceptuals developments in Theoretical Biology, Sociology and Anthropology into an Evolutionary Psychology approach. Evolutionary Game Theory tries to model the evolution of human ... -
Trust-based altruism facing new contexts: the Vyegwa-Gika pygmies from Burundi
Acedo-Carmona, Cristina; Munar, Enric; Gomila Benejam, Antoni (Public Library Science, 2018)The community of Pygmies settled in Vyegwa-Gika provides an exceptional case study to test the role of trust in the evolution of altruism. The Vyegwa-Gika Pygmies were forced to migrate from rainforests to the savanna, ...