Shaping the Future of european Sociology The European Academy of Sociology is a distinguished fellowship of scholars dedicated to advancing excellence in sociology. Bringing together expertise from di...

In this paper we address the general question of how social influence determines collective outcomes for large populations of individuals faced with binary deci...

Why are people inclined to build friendships and maintain durable, non-reproductive relationships? Previous computational modeling work showed that it can be an...

Besides opportunistically rational choice, emotion and commitment to norms influence human choice behavior. Traditionally economists have opted for the rational...

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A snowmobile trail canalizes snow-covered land to create a path of snowmobile travel. This form of communication infrastructure yields two kinds...

The evidence is strong that modern hunter-gatherer societies approximate the Marxian ideal in which each contributes according to ability and receives according...

Various economic and sociological approaches have attempted to solve the puzzle of persistent gender inequality in the division of housework, but...

Many political failure arguments implicitly assume that voters are irrational. This article argues that this assumption is both theoretically and...

The Indochinese refugee crisis of 1978-79 is modeled as a prisoners' dilemma, with Thailand choosing whether to permit first asylum and the United States c...

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