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True stories of people who left radical movements

In this unit students explore stories of people who have left a radical movement, or deliberately discuss with representatives of the “other side” and

Schäfer, M., Haun, DBM, & Tomasello, M. (2015). Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1252–1260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615586188

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But

Herrmann, B., Thöni, C., & Gächter, S. (2008). Antisocial Punishment Across Societies. Science, 319(5868), 1362–1367. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1153808

Hewlett, B. S., Fouts, H. N., Boyette, A. H., & Hewlett, B. L. (2011). Social learning among Congo Basin hunter–gatherers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1567), 1168-1178.

House, B. R., Kanngiesser, P., Barrett, H. C., Broesch, T., Cebioglu, S., Crittenden, A. N., … & Yilmaz, S. (2019). Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development. Nature human behaviour, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0734-z

Kocher, M. G., Cherry, T., Kroll, S., Netzer, R. J., & Sutter, M. (2008). Conditional cooperation on three continents. Economics Letters, 101(3), 175–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2008.07.015

Henrich, J., Boyd, R. T., Bowles, S., Camerer, C. F., Fehr, E., & Gintis, H. (2004). Foundations of Human Sociality. Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press.

Henrich, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., … Ziker, J. (2006). Costly Punishment across Human Societies. Science, 312(5781), 1767–70. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1127333

Herrmann, B., & Thöni, C. (2009). Measuring conditional cooperation: A replication study in Russia. Experimental Economics, 12(1), 87–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-008-9197-1

Aktipis, A. (2016). Principles of cooperation across systems: From human sharing to multicellularity and cancer. Evolutionary Applications, 9(1), 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12303

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