Rise and fall of competitiveness in individualistic and collectivistic societies

Competitiveness pervades life: plants compete for sunlight and water, animals for territory and food, and humans for mates and income. Herein we investigate human competitiveness with a natural experiment and a set of behavioral experiments. We compare competitiveness in traditional fishing societie...

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Vydané v:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Ročník 110; číslo 23; s. 9305
Hlavní autori: Leibbrandt, Andreas, Gneezy, Uri, List, John A
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States 04.06.2013
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Biological Evolution
Brazil
Competitive Behavior - physiology
Cooperative Behavior
Fisheries - methods
Games, Experimental
Humans
Learning - physiology
Male
Middle Aged
Regression Analysis
Social Environment
Statistics, Nonparametric
Brazil
endogeneous preferences
social learning
field experiment
ISSN:1091-6490, 1091-6490
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Shrnutí:Competitiveness pervades life: plants compete for sunlight and water, animals for territory and food, and humans for mates and income. Herein we investigate human competitiveness with a natural experiment and a set of behavioral experiments. We compare competitiveness in traditional fishing societies where local natural forces determine whether fishermen work in isolation or in collectives. We find sharp evidence that fishermen from individualistic societies are far more competitive than fishermen from collectivistic societies, and that this difference emerges with work experience. These findings suggest that humans can evolve traits to specific needs, support the idea that socio-ecological factors play a decisive role for individual competitiveness, and provide evidence how individualistic and collectivistic societies shape economic behavior.
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ISSN:1091-6490
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1300431110