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Human behaviour: Egalitarian motive and altruistic punishmentJames H Fowler
Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Nature 433:1 p following 32; discussion following 32. 2005..This finding is consistent with evidence that humans may have an evolutionary incentive to punish the highest earners in order to promote equality, rather than cooperation...
Altruistic punishment and the origin of cooperationJames H Fowler
Department of Political Science, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:7047-9. 2005..It also suggests that punishment can only enforce payoff-improving strategies, contrary to a widely cited "folk theorem" result that suggests that punishment can allow the evolution of any strategy...- Human cooperation: second-order free-riding problem solved?James H Fowler
Department of Political Science, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Nature 437:E8; discussion E8-9. 2005..Here I present a simplified version of their model to demonstrate how cooperation unravels if second-round defectors enter the population, and this shows that the free-riding problem remains unsolved... - Egalitarian motives in humansChristopher T Dawes
Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA
Nature 446:794-6. 2007..The results suggest that egalitarian motives affect income-altering behaviours, and may therefore be an important factor underlying the evolution of strong reciprocity and, hence, cooperation in humans... - Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networksJames H Fowler
Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92103, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5334-8. 2010..These results show experimentally that cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks... - Inferring tie strength from online directed behaviorJason J Jones
Medical Genetics Division, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 8:e52168. 2013..More private communications (messages) were not necessarily more informative than public communications (comments, wall posts, and other interactions)... 
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilizationRobert M Bond
Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Nature 489:295-8. 2012..These results suggest that strong ties are instrumental for spreading both online and real-world behaviour in human social networks...- Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart StudyJames H Fowler
Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
BMJ 337:a2338. 2008..To evaluate whether happiness can spread from person to person and whether niches of happiness form within social networks... - Model of genetic variation in human social networksJames H Fowler
Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:1720-4. 2009..They also suggest that modeling intrinsic variation in network attributes may be important for understanding the way genes affect human behaviors and the way these behaviors spread from person to person... - Biology, politics, and the emerging science of human natureJames H Fowler
Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Science 322:912-4. 2008..We describe recent advances and argue that biologists and political scientists must work together to advance a new science of human nature... - Correlated genotypes in friendship networksJames H Fowler
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Political Science, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:1993-7. 2011.... - The collective dynamics of smoking in a large social networkNicholas A Christakis
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 358:2249-58. 2008..We examined the extent of the person-to-person spread of smoking behavior and the extent to which groups of widely connected people quit together... - Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust gameDavid Cesarini
Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:3721-6. 2008..Based on these findings, we urge social scientists to take seriously the idea that differences in peer and parental socialization are not the only forces that influence variation in cooperative behavior... - The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 yearsNicholas A Christakis
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 357:370-9. 2007..The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 30 years. We performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity as a possible factor contributing to the obesity epidemic...