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    1. Just started reading Michael Tomasello's book Why We Cooperate, which uses research w/ children and chimpanzees to puzzle out what cooperation is, and what innate tendencies it draws upon.
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    Simply and lucidly written. I already know that the distinction between being generous, helpful, and informative (it's about sharing goods, services, and information, which have different kinds of costs) will stick with me.
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      Also, if you have children in your life, you will enjoy visualizing adorable scenarios: toddlers want to help adults w/ things they try to do (like picking up dropped clothespins), have no interest in chasing thrown clothespins.
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        Or this: "the adult has a trivial problem, and the infants help him solve it… 22 [out of 24] helped at least once, and they did so basically immediately"; to detect variation, researchers had to create fun "distractor activities" so they don't all help all the time.
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          More about the book: mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-we-cooperate MIT Press is offering free access to libraries through May. Get yours to link up: direct.mit.edu/pages/covid-19
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            Unlike chimps, 1-year-old "human children collaborated in the social games as well as [reward-seeking] tasks. Indeed, they sometimes turned the instrumental tasks into social games by placing the obtained reward back into the apparatus to start the activity again"
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