Barriers to cooperation aid ideological rigidity and threaten societal collapse.

Understanding the factors that promote, disrupt, or shape the nature of cooperation is one of the main tasks of evolutionary biology. Here, we focus on attitudes and beliefs supportive of in-group favoritism and strict adherence to moral consensus, collectively known as ideological rigidity, that ha...

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Main Authors: Marko Jusup, Tadasu Matsuo, Yoh Iwasa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4014399?pdf=render