Why We Cooperate
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she''s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put t...
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she''s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put t...
