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Record W4409707068 · doi:10.1027/2157-3891/a000115

Cooperation and the Mistaken Belief of Human Nature

2025· article· en· W4409707068 on OpenAlexaff
Katherine D. Arbuthnott

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Perspectives in Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Canadian institutionsCampion CollegeUniversity of Regina
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract: To deal with global environmental and humanitarian crises, humanity needs cooperation at all levels from local to international. One significant barrier to cooperation is widespread distrust of other people, institutions, and nations, which is founded on a mistaken belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish. To achieve the UN Sustainability Goals (SDGs) in time to preserve a livable planet for future generations, innate human cooperation needs to be unshackled. Research, both real-world and experimental, consistently shows that most people are motivated by concern for others, disconfirming the theory of essential human selfishness. This evidence is not widely known, even among psychologists. The discipline of psychology could play a vital role in environmental action by widely disseminating this evidence to correct our mistaken view of human nature. To that end, this paper describes a sample of the evidence showing intuitive altruism and discusses factors such as wealth and distrust that suppress cooperation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.010
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.455
Teacher spread0.429 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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