Reciprocal Altruism Act
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A Reciprocal Altruism Act is an act of altruism with the expectation that the other agent will act in a similar manner at a later time.
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- See: Evolutionary Biology, Tit For Tat, Social Incentive, Principal-Agent Dilemma.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reciprocal_altruism Retrieved:2014-10-17.
- In evolutionary biology, reciprocal altruism is a behaviour whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that the other organism will act in a similar manner at a later time. The concept was initially developed by Robert Trivers to explain the evolution of cooperation as instances of mutually altruistic acts. The concept is close to the strategy of “tit for tat” used in game theory.
- (Fukuyama, 2014a) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2014). “Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy." Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN:0374227357
- QUOTE: Natural human sociability is built around two phenomena: kin selection and reciprocal altruism. The first is a recurring pattern by which sexually reproducing animals behave altruistically toward one another in proportion to the number of genes they share; that is, they practice nepotism and favor genetic relatives. Reciprocal altruism involves an exchange of favors or resources between unrelated individuals of the same species, or sometimes between members of different species. Both behaviors are not learned but genetically coded and emerge spontaneously as individuals interact.