A Model of Genetic Variation in Human Social Networks (2008)
Fowler, James H., Dawes, Christopher T., Christakis, Nicholas A.
Social networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. While genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in many complex social...
Egalitarian motives in humans (2007)
Dawes, Christopher T., Fowler, James H., Johnson, Tim, McElreath, Richard, Smirnov, Oleg
The Genetic Basics of Political Cooperation (2006)
Fowler, James H., Baker, Laura A., Dawes, Christopher T
Cooperation has been a focus of intense interest in the biological and social sciences. Yet in spite of a tremendous effort to develop evolutionary models and laboratory experiments that explain the...
Genetic Influences on Economic Preferences
David, Cesarini, Dawes, Christopher T., Johannesson, Magnus, Lichtenstein, Paul, Wallace, Björn
We use the classical twin design to provide estimates of genetic and environmental influences on experimentally elicited preferences for risk and altruism. Our estimates provide strong prima facie...
Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game
Cesarini, David, Dawes, Christopher T., Fowler, James H., Johannesson, Magnus, Lichtenstein, Paul, Wallace, Björn
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...