Trivers

In “The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism” Trivers highlighted the conundrum of cheats by borrowing a well-known metaphor from game theory.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

A fascinating character, Trivers, who suffers from bipolar disorder, became steeped in controversy because of his friendship with the leader of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

I am a newcomer to NSA, but I attended an event last week, and I know the President of NSA, Susan Trivers.

Women Grow Business » Search Results » scherer 2010

This issue has been discussed for decades but, from the perspective of my field, was first framed the right way in a paper by Robert Trivers, an American evolutionary biologist.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

At that time, Trivers did not refer to direct reciprocity but used the term “reciprocal altruism,” where altruism is an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

I am a newcomer to NSA, but I attended an event last week, and I know the President of NSA, Susan Trivers.

Women Grow Business » 2009 » November 2009

Last year Robert Kurzban of the University of Pennsylvania published a book called "Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite," and this month Robert Trivers will publish a complementary explanation of self-deception in his book "The Folly of Fools."

Hard-Wired Hypocrisy in Our Divided Minds Matt Ridley 2011

Mr. Trivers takes further this idea of hiding potentially damaging information away in an unconscious bit of the brain where it cannot leak, arguing that we deceive ourselves the better to deceive others.

Hard-Wired Hypocrisy in Our Divided Minds Matt Ridley 2011

Which may explain why Mr. Trivers finds that intelligent people are more likely to deceive themselves than the average.

Hard-Wired Hypocrisy in Our Divided Minds Matt Ridley 2011

The game had been played in a repeated form before, but Trivers made a new advance when he introduced the repeated game to an analysis of animal behavior.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011