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Coevolutionary games--a mini reviewMatjaz Perc
Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroska cesta 160, Maribor, Slovenia
Biosystems 99:109-25. 2010..fact that the evolution of strategies alone may be insufficient to fully exploit the benefits offered by cooperative behavior. Indeed, while spatial structure and heterogeneity, for example, have been recognized as potent promoters ..
Five rules for the evolution of cooperationMartin A Nowak
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 314:1560-3. 2006..For each mechanism, a simple rule is derived that specifies whether natural selection can lead to cooperation...
Altruistic punishment in humansErnst Fehr
University of Zurich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, CH 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Nature 415:137-40. 2002..These results suggest that future study of the evolution of human cooperation should include a strong focus on explaining altruistic punishment...
The nature of human altruismErnst Fehr
University of Zurich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, CH 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Nature 425:785-91. 2003..Current gene-based evolutionary theories cannot explain important patterns of human altruism, pointing towards the importance of both theories of cultural evolution as well as gene-culture co-evolution...
Positive interactions promote public cooperationDavid G Rand
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 325:1272-5. 2009..We conclude that reward outperforms punishment in repeated public goods games and that human cooperation in such repeated settings is best supported by positive interactions with others...
Heterogeneous aspirations promote cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma gameMatjaz Perc
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Slovenia
PLoS ONE 5:e15117. 2010..Our study indicates that heterogeneity in aspirations may be key for the sustainability of cooperation in structured populations...
Spatial structure often inhibits the evolution of cooperation in the snowdrift gameChristoph Hauert
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Nature 428:643-6. 2004..In particular, spatial structure eliminates cooperation if the cost-to-benefit ratio of cooperation is high. Our results caution against the common belief that spatial structure is necessarily beneficial for cooperative behaviour...
Reputation helps solve the 'tragedy of the commons'Manfred Milinski
Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute of Limnology Plön, Germany
Nature 415:424-6. 2002..Alternating the games leads to higher profits for all players. As reputation may be a currency that is valid in many social games, our approach could be used to test social dilemmas for their solubility...
Social learning promotes institutions for governing the commonsKarl Sigmund
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, A 1090 Vienna, Austria
Nature 466:861-3. 2010....
Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rareRobert Boyd
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA
Science 328:617-20. 2010..We show that punishment can proliferate when rare, and when it does, it enhances group-average payoffs...
Evolutionary establishment of moral and double moral standards through spatial interactionsDirk Helbing
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS Comput Biol 6:e1000758. 2010..called "cooperators" or "second-order free-riders"), cooperators who punish non-cooperative behavior ("moralists"), and defectors, who punish other defectors despite being non-cooperative themselves ..
Costly punishment across human societiesJoseph Henrich
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Science 312:1767-70. 2006..These findings are consistent with models of the gene-culture coevolution of human altruism and further sharpen what any theory of human cooperation needs to explain...
Does mobility decrease cooperation?Mendeli H Vainstein
Instituto de Física and International Center of Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade de Brasilia, CP 04513, 70919 97 Brasília DF, Brazil
J Theor Biol 244:722-8. 2007..We find that cooperative behavior is not only possible but may even be enhanced by such an "always-move" rule, when compared with ..
Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world settingMelissa Bateson
Evolution and Behaviour Research Group, School of Biology and Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Biol Lett 2:412-4. 2006..This finding provides the first evidence from a naturalistic setting of the importance of cues of being watched, and hence reputational concerns, on human cooperative behaviour...
Collaborative care for depression: a cumulative meta-analysis and review of longer-term outcomesSimon Gilbody
Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, England
Arch Intern Med 166:2314-21. 2006....
Social norms and human cooperationErnst Fehr
University of Zurich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, CH 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Trends Cogn Sci 8:185-90. 2004..Moreover, the explicit study of sanctioning behavior provides instruments for measuring social norms and has also led to deeper insights into the proximate and ultimate forces behind human cooperation...
Cooperation between non-kin in animal societiesTim Clutton-Brock
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB3 9EJ, UK
Nature 462:51-7. 2009....
Evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in structured heterogeneous populationsF C Santos
, CP 194/6, , Brussels, Belgium
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:3490-4. 2006..that, for all dilemmas, increasing heterogeneity favors the emergence of cooperation, such that long-term cooperative behavior easily resists short-term noncooperative behavior...
Evolution of indirect reciprocityMartin A Nowak
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 437:1291-8. 2005..The evolution of cooperation by indirect reciprocity leads to reputation building, morality judgement and complex social interactions with ever-increasing cognitive demands...
The structure of scientific collaboration networksM E Newman
Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:404-9. 2001....
Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishmentJoseph Henrich
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Science 327:1480-4. 2010..These results suggest that modern prosociality is not solely the product of an innate psychology, but also reflects norms and institutions that have emerged over the course of human history...
The interplay of cognition and cooperationSarah F Brosnan
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:2699-710. 2010..This paper spans the literature from bacteria to humans in our search for the key variables that link cooperation and deception to cognition...
An integrative model of shared decision making in medical encountersGregory Makoul
Program in Communication and Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 North St Clair, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Patient Educ Couns 60:301-12. 2006....
Altruism, spite, and greenbeardsStuart A West
Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Science 327:1341-4. 2010..by the sterile workers of social insects, driven by genetics or ecology? Does spite really exist in nature? And, can altruism be favored between individuals who are not close kin but share a "greenbeard" gene for altruism?..
Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeastJeff Gore
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Nature 459:253-6. 2009..Finally, we note that glucose repression of invertase expression in wild-type cells produces a strategy that is optimal for the snowdrift game-wild-type cells cooperate only when competing against cheater cells...
Antisocial punishment across societiesBenedikt Herrmann
Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, University of Nottingham, School of Economics, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Science 319:1362-7. 2008..Our results show that punishment opportunities are socially beneficial only if complemented by strong social norms of cooperation...
The long-run benefits of punishmentSimon Gächter
Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, University of Nottingham, School of Economics, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Science 322:1510. 2008..We compared 10- and 50-period cooperation experiments. With the longer time horizon, punishment is unambiguously beneficial...
Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods gamesFrancisco C Santos
Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle IRIDIA, Computer and Decision Engineering Department, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, B 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Nature 454:213-6. 2008..Combining social diversity with reputation and punishment will provide instrumental clues on the self-organization of social communities and their economical implications...
Assortment and the evolution of generalized reciprocityDaniel J Rankin
Division of Behavioral Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH 3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland
Evolution 63:1913-22. 2009..We show that generalized reciprocity can evolve under both the prisoner's dilemma and the snowdrift game...
Mesoscopic structure conditions the emergence of cooperation on social networksSergi Lozano
ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 3:e1892. 2008..We study the evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma on two social networks substrates obtained from actual relational data...
Quality collaboratives: lessons from researchJ Øvretveit
The Nordic School of Public Health, Goteborg, Sweden The Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham University, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 11:345-51. 2002....
Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathyFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 59:279-300. 2008..Empathy-induced altruism derives its strength from the emotional stake it offers the self in the other's welfare. The dynamics of the empathy mechanism agree with predictions from kin selection and reciprocal altruism theory...
The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditionsDirk Helbing
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, UNO D11, Universitätstrasse 41, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:3680-5. 2009..The self-organization of cooperative behavior is particularly puzzling for social dilemmas related to sharing natural resources or creating common goods...
Egalitarianism in young childrenErnst Fehr
University of Zurich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, CH 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Nature 454:1079-83. 2008....
Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problemKarthik Panchanathan
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Nature 432:499-502. 2004..However, we also show that such a strategy cannot invade a population in which indirect reciprocity is not linked to collective action, thus leaving unexplained how collective action arises...
Primary care - mental health collaboration: an example of assessing usual practice and potential barriersJacqueline J Fickel
Veterans Administration, Health Services Research and Development Service, Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Interprof Care 21:207-16. 2007..We identify strategies that can help overcome the barriers to collaboration that our informants most commonly identified...
Empirical study of data sharing by authors publishing in PLoS journalsCaroline J Savage
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
PLoS ONE 4:e7078. 2009..These policies are explicit, but remain largely untested. We sought to determine how well authors comply with such policies by requesting data from authors who had published in one of two journals with clear data sharing policies...
Via freedom to coercion: the emergence of costly punishmentChristoph Hauert
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 316:1905-7. 2007In human societies, cooperative behavior in joint enterprises is often enforced through institutions that impose sanctions on defectors...
Cooperation through image scoring in humansC Wedekind
Abteilung Verhaltensökologie, Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Bern, 3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland
Science 288:850-2. 2000..Donations were more frequent to receivers who had been generous to others in earlier interactions. This shows that image scoring promotes cooperative behavior in situations where direct reciprocity is unlikely.
The efficient interaction of indirect reciprocity and costly punishmentBettina Rockenbach
Department of Economics, University of Erfurt, Nordhäuser Strasse 63, D 99089 Erfurt, Germany
Nature 444:718-23. 2006..Because punishment and reputation building are omnipresent interacting forces in human societies, costly punishing should appear less destructive without losing its deterring force...
Indirect reciprocity provides only a narrow margin of efficiency for costly punishmentHisashi Ohtsuki
Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152 8552, Japan
Nature 457:79-82. 2009..In most cases the population does better by not using costly punishment. The efficient strategy for indirect reciprocity is to withhold help for defectors rather than punishing them...
Winners don't punishAnna Dreber
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 452:348-51. 2008..Those people who gain the highest total payoff tend not to use costly punishment: winners don't punish. This suggests that costly punishment behaviour is maladaptive in cooperation games and might have evolved for other reasons...
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. 2008Although laboratory experiments document cooperative behavior in humans, little is known about the extent to which individual differences in cooperativeness result from genetic and environmental variation...
Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite populationsMartin A Nowak
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 428:646-50. 2004..We specify the conditions required for natural selection to favour the emergence of cooperation and define evolutionary stability in finite populations...
Human strategy updating in evolutionary gamesArne Traulsen
Emmy Noether Group for Evolutionary Dynamics, and Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:2962-6. 2010..Our experimental approach to measure properties of the update mechanisms used in theoretical models will be useful for mathematical models of cultural evolution...
Why people punish defectors. Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmasJ Henrich
University of Michigan, 701 Tappan Road, D3276, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1234, USA
J Theor Biol 208:79-89. 2001..fail to punish non-cooperators), then an arbitrarily small amount of conformist transmission will stabilize cooperative behavior by stabilizing punishment at some n -th stage...
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...
Punishing and abstaining for public goodsHannelore Brandt
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:495-7. 2006..Evolutionary dynamics can lead either to a Nash equilibrium of punishing and nonpunishing cooperators or to an oscillating state without punishers...
The new cooperative medical scheme in ChinaXuedan You
Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
Health Policy 91:1-9. 2009..Rigorous evaluations, based on richer and latest micro-level data, could considerably strengthen the evidence base for the performance and impact of NCMS...
Emergence of social cohesion in a model society of greedy, mobile individualsCarlos P Roca
ETH Zurich, CH 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:11370-4. 2011..Our model is, therefore, expected to shed light on the long-standing problem of the emergence and stability of cooperative behavior.
Resistance to extreme strategies, rather than prosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods gamesRolf Kümmerli
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:10125-30. 2010..More generally, our results illustrate the caution that must be exercised when interpreting the evolutionary implications of economic experiments, especially the absolute level of cooperation in a particular treatment...
Did warfare among ancestral hunter-gatherers affect the evolution of human social behaviors?Samuel Bowles
Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
Science 324:1293-8. 2009....
Integrating mental health into primary care within the Veterans Health AdministrationEdward P Post
Veterans Affairs Central Office, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Fam Syst Health 28:83-90. 2010....
Risk of collective failure provides an escape from the tragedy of the commonsFrancisco C Santos
Departamento de Informática and Centro de Inteligência Artificial, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829 516 Caparica, Portugal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:10421-5. 2011....
On the psychology of cooperation in humans and other primates: combining the natural history and experimental evidence of prosocialityAdrian V Jaeggi
Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:2723-35. 2010..We discuss ultimate explanations for these derived features, in particular the adoption of cooperative breeding as well as concern for reputation and costly signalling during human evolution...
Patient self-management of chronic disease in primary careThomas Bodenheimer
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
JAMA 288:2469-75. 2002..Self-management education for chronic illness may soon become an integral part of high-quality primary care...
Cooperators benefit through reputation-based partner choice in economic gamesKarolina Sylwester
Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Henry Wellcome Building, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Biol Lett 6:659-62. 2010..Furthermore, while indirect reciprocity depends upon individuals giving preference to those of good standing, CA can explain unconditional cooperation...
Evolutionary games defined at the network mesoscale: the Public Goods gameJesús Gmez-Gardeñes
Departamento de Matematica Aplicada, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain
Chaos 21:016113. 2011..We conclude by analyzing the influence of the size of the groups in the evolutionary success of cooperation...
Social experiments in the mesoscale: humans playing a spatial prisoner's dilemmaJelena Grujic
Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos, Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain
PLoS ONE 5:e13749. 2010..Therefore, experimental work suitably designed to address this question is needed to probe these issues...
What do collaborative improvement projects do? Experience from seven countriesTim Wilson
RCGP Quality Unit, Royal College of General Practitioners, London, United Kingdom
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:85-93. 2003..There are large variations in the way collaboratives are structured and run, but there is no widely accepted framework for describing the components of collaboratives. Thus, it is difficult to study which approaches are most effective...
Strength of social tie predicts cooperative investment in a human social networkFreya Harrison
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 6:e18338. 2011..Interestingly, participants regularly suffered greater discomfort for very close peers than for themselves. Our results provide new insight into the effect of social structure on the direct benefits of cooperation...
When your errors make me lose or win: event-related potentials to observed errors of cooperators and competitorsLeonie Koban
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Soc Neurosci 5:360-74. 2010..We conclude that error monitoring for others' actions depends on their congruence with personal goals, and recruits brain systems involved in self-referential processing specifically during cooperation...
The enforcement of cooperation by policingClaire El Mouden
Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
Evolution 64:2139-52. 2010..We find that large groups and increased kin competition disfavor policing, and that policing is maintained more readily than it invades. Policing may be harder to evolve than previously thought...
Context-dependent interaction leads to emergent search behavior in social aggregatesColin Torney
School of Mathematical Sciences and Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:22055-60. 2009..This behavior illustrates an alternative pathway to the evolution of higher cognitive capacity via the emergent, group-level intelligence that can result from local interactions...
Acting together in and beyond the mirror neuron systemIdil Kokal
BCN Neuroimaging Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Neuroimage 47:2046-56. 2009....
"Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societiesJoseph Henrich
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Behav Brain Sci 28:795-815; discussion 815-55. 2005..Fifth, in many cases experimental play appears to reflect the common interactional patterns of everyday life...
What do we know about cognitive and motivational effects of small group tutorials in problem-based learning?Diana H J M Dolmans
Department of Educational Development and Research, University of Maastricht, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 11:321-36. 2006..Although the studies demonstrate that group learning in PBL may have positive effects, much more research is needed to obtain more evidence and deeper insight in the cognitive and emotional effects of small group learning in PBL...
Topological traps control flow on real networks: the case of coordination failuresCarlos P Roca
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 5:e15210. 2010..We finally show that topological traps are a very generic phenomenon that may arise in very many different networks and fields, such as opinion models, spread of diseases or ecological networks...
Cooperation, norms, and revolutions: a unified game-theoretical approachDirk Helbing
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 5:e12530. 2010..This can yield conflict, since behavior that is considered cooperative by one population might be perceived as non-cooperative from the viewpoint of another...
The evolution of punishment through reputationMiguel dos Santos
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Proc Biol Sci 278:371-7. 2011....
Cooperation among unrelated individuals: reciprocal altruism, by-product mutualism and group selection in fishesL A Dugatkin
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
Biosystems 37:19-30. 1996..this game by the cooperator's dilemma, which is more versatile because it enables all three categories of cooperative behavior to be examined within the framework of a single theory...
Action co-representation: the joint SNARC effectSilke Atmaca
Rutgers, The New Jersey State University, Newark, NJ, USA
Soc Neurosci 3:410-20. 2008..This generalizes previous results on co-representation.We discuss the role of the mirror system in co-representation as a basis for shared intentionality and communication...
How social are task representations?Bernhard Hommel
Leiden University, Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
Psychol Sci 20:794-8. 2009..This result suggests that agents can represent self-generated and other-generated actions separately, but tend to relate or integrate these representations if the personal relationship between self and other has a positive valence...
Web-based collaborative training of clinical reasoning: a randomized trialT Raupach
University Hospital Gottingen, Germany
Med Teach 31:e431-7. 2009..Clinical reasoning skills are essential for medical practice. Problem-based collaborative learning via the internet might prove useful in imparting these skills...
A randomised controlled trial to test the feasibility of a collaborative care model for the management of depression in older peopleCarolyn A Chew Graham
Primary Care Research Group, School of Community Based Medicine, University of Manchester
Br J Gen Pract 57:364-70. 2007..Depression is the most common mental health disorder in people aged over 65 years. Late-life depression is associated with chronic illness and disability...
An evaluation of collaborative interventions to improve chronic illness care. Framework and study designShan Cretin
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Eval Rev 28:28-51. 2004..When analyzed, these data will shed new light on the effectiveness of collaborative improvement methods and the CCM...
The option to leave: conditional dissociation in the evolution of cooperationSegismundo S Izquierdo
Department of Industrial Organization, University of Valladolid, 47011 Spain
J Theor Biol 267:76-84. 2010..These conclusions are obtained both by extensive numerical simulations and through analytical mean-field methods that approximate the stochastic simulation dynamics and deliver accurate predictions for general parameter configurations...
Learning and improving in quality improvement collaboratives: which collaborative features do participants value most?Ingrid M Nembhard
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Health Serv Res 44:359-78. 2009..To understand participants' views on the relative helpfulness of various features of collaboratives, why each feature was helpful and which features the most successful participants viewed as most central to their success...
Dominance and affiliation mediate despotism in a social primateAndrew J King
Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK
Curr Biol 18:1833-8. 2008..Our findings highlight the importance of leader incentives and social relationships in group decision-making processes and the emergence of despotism...
Network dynamics to evaluate performance of an academic institutionMichael E Hughes
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Sci Transl Med 2:53ps49. 2010..Also, collaborations within institutions and departments were more frequent than those between them--an actionable area of improvement...
Sharing a task or sharing space? On the effect of the confederate in action coding in a detection taskDelia Guagnano
Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Cognition 114:348-55. 2010..The presence of an active confederate in peripersonal space might simply provide a reference for coding one's own action in space...
Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveysJ B Sexton
University of Texas Human Factors Research Project, 1609 Shoal Creek Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78701, USA
BMJ 320:745-9. 2000..To survey operating theatre and intensive care unit staff about attitudes concerning error, stress, and teamwork and to compare these attitudes with those of airline cockpit crew...
Cooperation, control, and concession in meerkat groupsT H Clutton-Brock
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
Science 291:478-81. 2001....
Rocking together: dynamics of intentional and unintentional interpersonal coordinationMichael J Richardson
Department of Psychology, Colby College, Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901, USA
Hum Mov Sci 26:867-91. 2007..The results of the visual focus manipulations indicate that the stability of a visual interpersonal coupling is mediated by attention and the degree to which an individual is able to detect information about a co-actor's movements...
Socio-economic status of the patient and doctor-patient communication: does it make a difference?S Willems
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, UZ 1K3, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
Patient Educ Couns 56:139-46. 2005..A more effective communication could be established by both doctors and patients through doctors' awareness of the contextual communicative differences and empowering patients to express concerns and preferences...
The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutionsOzgür Gürerk
University of Erfurt, Nordhäuser Strasse 63, 99089 Erfurt, Germany
Science 312:108-11. 2006..The findings demonstrate the competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions and exemplify the emergence and manifestation of social order driven by institutional selection...
Is it really my turn? An event-related fMRI study of task sharingNatalie Sebanz
Rutgers University, Department of Psychology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Soc Neurosci 2:81-95. 2007..These results suggest that our default mode is to interact with others...
Dynamics of aggregation and emergence of cooperationJ L Deneubourg
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Unit of Social Ecology, CP 231, Belgium
Biol Bull 202:262-7. 2002..These results are discussed with emphasis on the role of aggregation processes in the emergence of cooperativity and task allocation...
Improving depression care for older, minority patients in primary carePatricia A Arean
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Med Care 43:381-90. 2005..This study examines whether a collaborative care model for depression in primary care is as effective in older minorities as it is in nonminority elderly patients in improving depression treatment and outcomes...
Evolution of coordinated alternating reciprocity in repeated dyadic gamesLindsay Browning
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
J Theor Biol 229:549-57. 2004..A mechanism is suggested whereby, in games with asymmetric equilibrium points, coordinated alternating reciprocity might evolve without insight or communication between players...
The good, the bad and the discriminator--errors in direct and indirect reciprocityHannelore Brandt
Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, University of Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
J Theor Biol 239:183-94. 2006..The probability for another round (in the case of direct reciprocity), and information about the co-player (in the case of indirect reciprocity), add further elements to the ecology of reciprocation...
The leading eight: social norms that can maintain cooperation by indirect reciprocityHisashi Ohtsuki
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812 8581, Japan
J Theor Biol 239:435-44. 2006..Second, we prove the two basic properties of the leading eight, which give a quantitative evaluation of the ESS condition and the level of cooperation maintained at the ESS...
Pretender punishment induced by chemical signalling in a queenless antThibaud Monnin
Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Nature 419:61-5. 2002..This cooperation between alpha and low-rankers allows the alpha to inflict punishment indirectly, thereby maintaining her reproductive primacy without having to fight...
Videoconferencing and Web-based conferencing to enhance learning communitiesLinda K Daley
College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, 1585 Neil Avenue 397, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
J Nurs Educ 47:78-81. 2008..Objectives for students were exposure to different schools of thought, management of care via technology, network and cultivation of global perspectives on health care delivery, and experience of novel educational approaches...
Crossing disciplinary boundaries in end-of-life educationStephanie Myers Schim
Wayne State University College of Nursing, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
J Prof Nurs 23:201-7. 2007..The effects of 5 years of experience with the course on students, faculty, and the university community are described, and future directions are suggested...
Working together for better healthB V Kathyayani
Dr M. V. Shetty Institute of Health Sciences, Vidyanagar, Mangalore
Nurs J India 97:257-8. 2006..The definitions of collaboration have not been structured to reflect true practice. Instead, at best, they reflect compromise, and at worst are conditioned and tailored to limit competition...
Collective inquiry: understanding the essence of best practice construction in mental healthK J Barry
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Sligo Leitrim Mental Health Service, HSE West, Ireland
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 14:558-65. 2007....
A competency-based approach to expanding the cancer care workforceAlison P Smith
C-Change, Washington, DC, USA
Medsurg Nurs 16:109-17; quiz 118. 2007
Interdisciplinary teamwork: is the influence of emotional intelligence fully appreciated?Antoinette McCallin
Division of Health Care Practice, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Aukland University of Technology, Aukland, New Zealand
J Nurs Manag 15:386-91. 2007..The purpose of this study is to discuss how emotional intelligence affects interdisciplinary team effectiveness. Some findings from a larger study on interdisciplinary teamworking are discussed...
Team behavioral norms: a shared vision for a healthy patient care workplaceMickey L Parsons
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio School of Nursing, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
Crit Care Nurs Q 30:213-8. 2007..Attributes of each norm are described to assist nurses to positively influence their core unit work culture...
The use of peer leadership to teach fundamental nursing skillsLinda Bensfield
Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois 60626, USA
Nurse Educ 33:155-8. 2008..The authors describe the benefits of the peer leadership course...
Research Grants
- QUORUM SENSING IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSAEverett P Greenberg; Fiscal Year: 2010..the molecular mechanisms of social activity in bacteria, and to learn about why, when, where and how cooperative behavior exists. This proposal is to continue studies on quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa...
- QUORUM SENSING IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSAEVERETT GREENBERG; Fiscal Year: 2009..the molecular mechanisms of social activity in bacteria, and to learn about why, when, where and how cooperative behavior exists. This proposal is to continue studies on quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa...
- Single-particle fluorescence studies of viral fusionAntoine Van Oijen; Fiscal Year: 2007..and establish the roles of the different hemifusion states, and 2) to determine the molecular nature of the cooperative behavior in HA-mediated fusion...
- The Molecular Basis of Allorecognition in Social AmoebaGad Shaulsky; Fiscal Year: 2010..Wild isolates of D. discoideum display cooperative behavior that is directly proportional to their genetic relatedness and we have uncovered a family of proteins that ..
- Neurobiological and Genetic Correlates of Cooperative BehaviorJames K Rilling; Fiscal Year: 2010..b>Cooperative behavior will be measured in an interactive social task known as the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) Game...
- STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF PROSTAGLANDIN H SYNTHASE 2RICHARD KULMACZ; Fiscal Year: 2002..PGHS-1 cyclooxygenase activity exhibits cooperative behavior at low arachidonic acid levels, whereas the PGHS-2 enzyme follows simple saturable kinetics...
- Neurobiological and Genetic Correlates of Cooperative BehaviorJames K Rilling; Fiscal Year: 2010..b>Cooperative behavior will be measured in an interactive social task known as the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) Game...
- Neurobiological and Genetic Correlates of Cooperative BehaviorJames Rilling; Fiscal Year: 2009..b>Cooperative behavior will be measured in an interactive social task known as the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) Game...
- GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAnthony Carruthers; Fiscal Year: 2004..by subsaturating levels of competitive inhibitors) to ask if altered Glut1 oligomeric size affects this cooperative behavior. Carbohydrate libraries will also be screened for potential "kinetic activators" of transport...
- HEXOKINASE II--STRUCTURE, REGULATION AND FUNCTIONDARYL GRANNER; Fiscal Year: 2002..These two halves of the molecule show cooperative behavior toward the product inhibitor G-6-P...
- Characterization of Natural mRNA Genetic Switches that Bind MetabolitesMichelle Meyer; Fiscal Year: 2007..Additionally, the sequence determinants for the cooperative behavior will be explored by targeting the phylogenetically conserved linker between the two glycine binding motifs...
- A Qualitative Study of Household Smoking PoliciesMichelle Kegler; Fiscal Year: 2004..Findings from this formative research will provide the foundation upon which to design and test effective strategies for creating smoke-free homes in rural, low-income communities. ..
- A SOCIAL NETWORK-BASED INTERVENTION TO REDUCE LEAD EXPOSMichelle Kegler; Fiscal Year: 2004..Process evaluation methods include documentation of lay health advisory contacts and interviews with youth and adult volunteers. ..
- Partnership Model for Diffusion of Proven PreventionRichard Spoth; Fiscal Year: 2010..Results will guide application of the partnership model to other school districts in IA and PA and, subsequently, to other states. ..
- RURAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION PROJECTRichard Spoth; Fiscal Year: 2007..MSEM and LGCM, along with Latent Transition Analyses, also will be used to examine developmental etiology and adolescent substance use effects on outcomes at the young adult developmental phases. ..
- HOSTILITY, MARITAL INTERACTION AND HEALTH IN AGINGTimothy Smith; Fiscal Year: 2004..g., fluid and crystallized intelligence). The long-term goal of the research is to identify potentially modifiable determinants of cardiovascular risk, marital adjustment, and cognitive aging in adulthood. ..
- POPULATION BASED PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTION--PRIMARY CAREWayne Katon; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Implementing Chronic Care Management for Bipolar DisorderAmy M Kilbourne; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- POLYGLUTAMINE CONFORMATION AND NEURODEGENERATIONSteven M Finkbeiner; Fiscal Year: 2010..This project is significant because it will elucidate pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic targets for HD, as it did during the previous period;the findings should also be relevant to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. ..
- Neuromechanics of Multifunctionality in AplysiaHillel Chiel; Fiscal Year: 2007..These studies will lead to a deeper understanding of the neuromechanical principles underlying multifunctionality. ..
- Integrated Neurobiology of Addiction and Mental IllnessRobert Chambers; Fiscal Year: 2007..Specific Aim 3 will utilize microarray technology to examine group differences in patterns of gene expression in the Nucleus Accumbens (NAc), Caudate Putamen (CaPu) and medial Prefrontal Codex (mPfC). ..
- Oral Health Disparities Among High-Risk PopulationsMonica Fisher; Fiscal Year: 2007..Fisher's research and career development. The proposed plans will intensify and focus Dr. Fisher's career development, and make innovative, methodologically sophisticated contributions to the literature. ..
- Evolutionary Graph Theory and Its ApplicationsMartin Nowak; Fiscal Year: 2007..The results promise a new structuralevolutionary framework for understanding processes that are of vital importance to medicine. ..
- New Treatment for Chronic Traumatic Stress in ChildrenLAUREL KISER; Fiscal Year: 2007..This phase includes an open trials pilot to demonstrate feasibility of implementation. The proposed research provides preliminary data for an R34 application and lays the foundation for future R01applications. ..
- Parental Time, Income and Children's BMIBisakha Sen; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) will be used to investigate the effects of parental time and income on the family's patterns of food purchases. ..
- Safer Antithrombotic Therapy for Elderly ACS PatientsEric Peterson; Fiscal Year: 2006..Finally, we will use established relations with professional societies and the VHA to widely disseminate our study's major findings. ..
- Evolutionary Graph Theory and Its ApplicationsMartin Nowak; Fiscal Year: 2009..The results promise a new structuralevolutionary framework for understanding processes that are of vital importance to medicine. ..
