Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game Export

@article{citeulike:2594201, abstract = {Although 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. In this article, we report the results of two independently conceived and executed studies of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, one in Sweden and one in the United States. The results from these studies suggest that humans are endowed with genetic variation that influences the decision to invest, and to reciprocate investment, in the classic trust game. Based on these findings, we urge social scientists to take seriously the idea that differences in peer and parental socialization are not the only forces that influence variation in cooperative behavior. 10.1073/pnas.0710069105}, author = {Cesarini, David and Dawes, Christopher T. and Fowler, James H. and Johannesson, Magnus and Lichtenstein, Paul and Wallace, Bjorn}, citeulike-article-id = {2594201}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710069105}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/105/10/3721}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18316737}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18316737}, day = {11}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.0710069105}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, keywords = {behavioral-genetics, neuroeconomy, oxytocin, trust-game}, month = {March}, number = {10}, pages = {3721--3726}, posted-at = {2008-06-03 16:13:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710069105}, volume = {105}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2594201 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2594201 N2 - Although 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. In this article, we report the results of two independently conceived and executed studies of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, one in Sweden and one in the United States. The results from these studies suggest that humans are endowed with genetic variation that influences the decision to invest, and to reciprocate investment, in the classic trust game. Based on these findings, we urge social scientists to take seriously the idea that differences in peer and parental socialization are not the only forces that influence variation in cooperative behavior. 10.1073/pnas.0710069105 IS - 10 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences EP - 3726 TI - Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game VL - 105 SP - 3721 KW - behavioral-genetics KW - neuroeconomy KW - oxytocin KW - trust-game AU - Cesarini, David AU - Dawes, Christopher AU - Fowler, James AU - Johannesson, Magnus AU - Lichtenstein, Paul AU - Wallace, Bjorn PY - 2008/03/11/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710069105 ER -