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Homogeneity of mind can yield heterogeneity in behavior producing emergent collaboration in groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Rick O'Gorman
Rick O'Gorman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK. [email protected]://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/department/people/ogorman.html
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Abstract

The evolved psychological process for producing social norms is both needed to facilitate emergent group-level traits and capable of delivering such a process. I discuss how this process can work to generate group-level traits and how specific mechanisms established to buttress social norms similarly can explain how group-level traits are supported.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 267 - 268
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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