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Together : the rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation
'Together' traces the evolution of cooperative rituals in medieval churches and guilds, Renaissance workshops and courts, early modern laboratories and diplomatic embassies. Today, it explains the trials and prospects of cooperation online and face-to-face ethnic conflicts among financial workers and community organisers.
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Together : the rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation
Living with people who differracially, ethnically, religiously, or economicallyis the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett discusses why this has happened and what might be done about it.Sennett contends that cooperation is a craft, and the foundations for skillful cooperation lie in learning to listen well and discuss rather than debate. In Together he explores how people can cooperate online, on street corners, in schools, at work, and in local politics. He traces the evolution of cooperative rituals from medieval times to today, and in situations as diverse as slave communities, socialist groups in Paris, and workers on Wall Street. Divided into three parts, the book addresses the nature of cooperation, why it has become weak, and how it could be strengthened. The author warns that we must learn the craft of cooperation if we are to make our complex society prosper, yet he reassures usand#160;that we can do this, for the capacity for cooperation is embedded in human nature.
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Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad
When Lulu invites her friends from the Bug Squad--all dressed up as insects--to come over for a play date, she wants everything to go just as she has planned.
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Distributed Situation Awareness
This book presents an exhaustive review and evaluation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on SA and of a range of SA measurement approaches. A novel theory of DSA in complex sociotechnical systems is presented, followed by an original methodology for assessing SA and DSA in command and control environments. It contains several naturalistic case studies of command and control scenarios undertaken in numerous military domains, as well as one involving multiple high-consequence civilian domains.
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Let's join a team!
Presents information on how to be a team player, including what a team does.
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The Calculus of Selfishness
How does cooperation emerge among selfish individuals? When do people share resources, punish those they consider unfair, and engage in joint enterprises? These questions fascinate philosophers, biologists, and economists alike, for the \"invisible hand\" that should turn selfish efforts into public benefit is not always at work. The Calculus of Selfishness looks at social dilemmas where cooperative motivations are subverted and self-interest becomes self-defeating. Karl Sigmund, a pioneer in evolutionary game theory, uses simple and well-known game theory models to examine the foundations of collective action and the effects of reciprocity and reputation.
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Pirates can work together
\"It's all hands on deck in this ... book about the pirate crew of the Golden Duck. Captain Cod tells each crew member to work on a sail, but each time they do it alone, they fail. They realize that it's best to work together as a team\"--Publisher's description.
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Can I play too?
\"A young boy building a train track with his friend is headed for trouble until a teacher steps in and helps him learn social cues of anger and happiness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Self-allocation bias in performance-based cooperative decisions is driven by self-interest rather than distorted performance encoding
Human cooperation often involves performing joint tasks, where success relies on how collective rewards are allocated among cooperating parties based on their individual performance and contribution to task outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether and how individual performance and contribution give rise to self-related biases in such allocation decisions. Here, we developed a novel performance-based social allocation task that manipulated how individual performance contributed to joint outcomes. Across two experiments, participants exhibited a robust self-allocation bias: they allocated more rewards to themselves and disproportionately disregarded their own performance, particularly when their performance did not causally contribute to the joint outcome. This self-allocation bias was amplified in individuals with stronger individualistic social preferences, as measured by social value orientation. At the neural level, self-relevant (versus self-irrelevant) allocation decisions were associated with increased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex extending into the anterior cingulate cortex, insula, and temporoparietal junction (TPJ). Moreover, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, lateral orbitofrontal cortex, and TPJ tracked trial-by-trial variations in relative performance as a function of contribution structure, independent of self-relevance. Together, these findings suggest that self-allocation bias in performance-based decisions is unlikely to arise from distorted neural encodings of performance. Instead, self-interest may shape how contribution-structured performance information is used in social-allocation choices, providing a more precise account of how self-serving behavior emerges in cooperative contexts.
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