ArticlePloS one2020
Environmental adversity is associated with lower investment in collective actions.
Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Cooperation as a signal of time preferences.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The Cognitive, Ecological, and Developmental Origins of Self-Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Childhood environmental adversity is not linked to lower levels of cooperative behaviour in economic games.Evolutionary human sciences · 2021Article
- Correction: Environmental adversity is associated with lower investment in collective actions.PloS one · 2021Article
- Neighbourhood wealth, not urbanicity, predicts prosociality towards strangers.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Retrospective Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Enriched Environments Uniquely Predict Prosocial Behavior and Personality Traits in Adulthood.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Environmental adversity is associated with a wide range of biological outcomes and behaviors that seem to fulfill a need to favor immediate over long-term benefits. Adversity is also associated with decreased investment in cooperation, which is defined as a long-term strategy. Beyond establishing the correlation between adversity and cooperation, the channel through which this relationship arises remains unclear. We propose that this relationship is mediated by a present bias at the psychological level, which is embodied in the reproduction-maintenance trade-off at the biological level. We report two pre-registered studies applying structural equation models to test this relationship on large-scale datasets (the European Values Study and the World Values Survey). The present study replicates existing research linking adverse environments (both in childhood and in adulthood) with decreased investment in adult cooperation and finds that this association is indeed mediated by variations in individuals' reproduction-maintenance trade-off.
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