Why We Cooperate

by Michael Tomasello

Book Overview

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.

Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally--and uniquely--cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013592
• ISBN13: 9780262013598
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher