Markets and religion shaped norms of fairness, punishment in complex societies

Friday, March 19, 2010 - 08:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Members of large-scale, complex human societies have learned to play nice with strangers through the norms that are associated with market participation and world religions, and not solely due to an evolved psychology for cooperation in small groups as previously believed, according to UBC-led research...

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