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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"social cooperation"”.
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Individual Freedom and Social Cooperation: Rousseau and a Basic Problem for Moral and Political Philosophy
… to reconcile individual freedom and the need for social cooperation. In his account of human social development, Rousseau describes three stages in which he considers human beings to be free: the state of nature, the primitive family, and the ideal civil society. An examination of the stages …
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Scripts for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
… construction in e-learning scenarios. A social script aims to support specific interactions of learning partners. An epistemic script aims to facilitate specific task-related activities. In a 2×2-design the factors “social cooperation script” (with vs. without) and “epistemic cooperation …
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To Survive and Thrive: A Self-Determination Perspective of Political Motivation
… on the concept of political activity as social cooperation motivated to meet two goals: biological survival and accumulation of extrinsic rewards such as power, wealth, or territory. Self-determination research in the field of human motivation reveals a different motivator in the form of …
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A comparison of full-day and half-day preschool: analyzing behavioral and social development
… preschool programs by analyzing behavioral and social development of three-year-old and four-year-old children. Data was collected from 31 participants enrolled in a preschool in Wilmington, Delaware that offered both full-day and half-day programs. Measures of social cooperation, social …
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Modelling religious signalling
The origins of human social cooperation confound simple evolutionary explanation. But from Darwin and Durkheim onwards, theorists (anthropologists and sociologists especially) have posited a potential link with another curious and distinctively human social trait that cries out for explanation: …
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Modelling religious signalling
The origins of human social cooperation confound simple evolutionary explanation. But from Darwin and Durkheim onwards, theorists (anthropologists and sociologists especially) have posited a potential link with another curious and distinctively human social trait that cries out for explanation: …
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Democracy and city life
… to finding mutually acceptable terms of social cooperation. But even such reasonable citizens may disagree on important matters, and some citizens will only rarely, if ever, see their sincere reasoned judgements reflected in democratic outcomes. I argue that, to be widely perceived as …
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Cooperating As Peers: Labor Justice Between Distributive and Relational Equality
… work is underrepresented in debates about social justice. In this way, political philosophy remains distant from real people s lives, and cannot address objectionable forms of work. The thesis contributes to fill in this gap, addressing the problem of labor justice with particular attention …
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The relationship between maternal stress and mothers' perceptions of their preschool children's social behaviors: A cross-cultural study of immigrant Korean mothers in the United States and Korean mothers in Korea.
… stress as it relates to the mothers' perceived social behaviors of their preschool children in both immigrant Korean families in the US and Korean families in Korea. The subjects included 49 immigrant Korean mothers in the US and 52 Korean mothers in Seoul, Korea. This study is relevant to …
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The Wartime Experience of the League of Nations, 1939-47
… for international political, economic and social cooperation in a period of intense crisis for liberal internationalism. It demonstrates that the League’s political identity retained a relevance to a world at war, despite the failure of its diplomatic role. The thesis chronicles the efforts …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
… John Rawls, although primarily concerned with social and political justice, and not with virtue ethics, gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his system of justice as fairness. Some philosophers, mostly of the Aristotelian-Aquinian …
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Cortical Representation of Learning Social Interactions In Freely Moving Non-Human Primates
<p>The motivation and capacity to be social is necessary for human survival. Successful learning of complex, prosocial behavior stems from the ability to perceive and respond to visual cues, such as the body language and facial expressions, from others in our environment. This dependence on visual …
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"Dashed hopes, bruised egos": Professional identity in investment banking in the context of the 2008 financial crisis
… they think and act, and how they make sense of social context or how their experience is within it. This thesis contributes to addressing these questions by focusing on how investment bankers construct their professional identities and in particular, how did this process look like during the …
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The role of indegenous music and games in the promotion of cognitive developement in Zambian children in Senanga and Shangombo Districts of Western Province
… valuable for promoting children’s cognitive and social abilities. For instance, in the area of mathematical skills, it was observed that constant participation in indigenous games like mulabalaba (a game that involves the movements of stones in dug out small holes), and muyato (a game involving …
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Essays on conflict, cooperation and economic development
… three chapters on topics relating to conflict, social cooperation and development economics. Several studies have identified the impact of adverse economic shocks on civil conflict using rainfall variation as an instrument for income or growth. The first chapter contributes to this literature by …
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Essays in development and urban economics
… interpersonal trust as an index for individual cooperation and also tax compliance rates, public good output and even the democracy index as measures for social cooperation. The third chapter is based on another co-authored paper. This paper examines the direct effects of a size-dependent credit …
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Zum Zusammenhang von Nutzung von Lerngelegenheiten, sozialer Kooperation, individuellen Determinanten und Kompetenzselbsteinschätzungen von Lehrkräften im Berufseinstieg im Allgemeinen Pflichtschulbereich in Niederösterreich
Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem Berufseinstieg von Lehrpersonen und untersucht Zusammenhänge zwischen der Nutzung von Lerngelegenheiten, sozialer Kooperation, individuellen Determinanten und Kompetenzselbsteinschätzungen, die erstmalig in dieser Zusammenstellung überprüft worden …
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Zero-Sum Mindset & Its Discontents
… so. Such zero-sum beliefs undermine potential cooperation towards achieving shared goals and overcoming shared challenges. While a small, but growing, literature examines the causes and effects of zero-sum beliefs within particular situations and domains, this research investigates whether …