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, apes demonstrate the ability to work togethe…
"An original argument for the role of social norms in the explaining and preventing the rise of genocide and mass atrocity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.