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Why cooperate? Social projection as a cognitive mechanism that helps us do good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Joachim I. Krueger and
Melissa Acevedo
Joachim I. Krueger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Joachim_Krueger@brown.edu Melissa_Acevedo@brown.edu http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/faculty/krueger.html
Melissa Acevedo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Joachim_Krueger@brown.edu Melissa_Acevedo@brown.edu http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/faculty/krueger.html
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Abstract

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The mother sacrificing herself while rescuing someone else's child is a red herring. Neither behaviorism nor cognitivism can explain it. Unlike behaviorism, however, the cognitive process of projection can explain cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002, pp. 266
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press