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EVOLUTION AND THE CAPACITY FOR COMMITMENT EVOLUTION AND THE CAPACITY FOR COMMITMENT M. RANDOLPH NESSE EDITOR VOLUME III IN THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION SERIES ON TRUST Russell Sage Foundation • New York The Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation, one of the oldest of America's general purpose foundations, was established in 1907 by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States." The Foun- dation seeks to fulfill this mandate by fostering the development and dissem- ination of knowledge about the country's political, social, and economic prob- lems. While the Foundation endeavors to assure the accuracy and objectivity of each book it publishes, the conclusions and interpretations in Russell Sage Foundation publications are those of the authors and not of the Foundation, its Trustees, or its staff. Publication by Russell Sage, therefore, does not imply Foundation endorsement. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ira Katznelson, Chair Alan S. Blinder Jennifer L. Hochschild Eugene Smolensky Christine K. Cassel Timothy A. Hultquist Marta Tienda Thomas D. Cook Melvin Konner Eric Wanner Robert E. Denham Ellen Condliffe Lagemann Phoebe C. Ellsworth Cora B. Marrett Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Evolution and the capacity for commitment / Randolph M. Nesse, editor p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87154-622-1 1. Genetic psychology. 2. Commitment (Psychology). 3. Psychology, Comparative. I. Nesse, Randolph M. BF701 .E955 2001 155.7-dc21 2001041781 Copyright © 2001 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permit- ted for any purpose. The paper used in this publication meets the mmrrnum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39A8-1992. Text design by Suzanne Nichols RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION 112 East 64th Street, New York, New York 10021 10987654321 The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust T HE RUSSELL SAGE Foundation Series on Trust examines the con- ceptual structure and the empirical basis of claims concerning the role of trust and trustworthiness in establishing and main- taining cooperative behavior in a wide variety of social, economic, and political contexts. The focus is on concepts, methods, and find- ings that will enrich social science and inform public policy. The books in the series raise questions about how trust can be dis- tinguished from other means of promoting cooperation and explore those analytic and empirical issues that advance our comprehension of the roles and limits of trust in social, political, and economic life. Because trust is at the core of understandings of social order from varied disciplinary perspectives, the series offers the best work of scholars from diverse backgrounds and, through the edited volumes, encourages engagement across disciplines and orientations. The goal of the series is to improve the current state of trust research by pro- viding a clear theoretical account of the causal role of trust within given institutional, organizational, and interpersonal situations, de- veloping sound measures of trust to test theoretical claims within rel- evant settings, and establishing some common ground among con- cerned scholars and policymakers. Karen S. Cook Margaret Levi Russell Hardin SERIES EDITORS Previous Volumes in the Series Trust and Governance Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi, editors Trust in Society Karen S. Cook, editor Contents Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Foreword: Beyond Selfishness in Modeling Human Behavior xiii Herbert Gintis Chapter 1 Natural Selection and the Capacity for Subjective Commitment 1 Randolph M. Nesse PART I CORE IDEAS FROM ECONOMICS 45 Chapter 2 Commitment: Deliberate Versus Involuntary 48 Thomas C. Schelling Chapter 3 Cooperation Through Emotional Commitment 57 Robert H. Frank Chapter 4 Game-Theoretic Interpretations of Commitment 77 Jack Hirshleifer PART II COMMITMENT IN ANIMALS 95 Chapter 5 Threat Displays in Animal Communication: Handicaps, Reputations, and Commitments 99 Eldridge S. Adams viii Contents Chapter 6 Subjective Commitment in Nonhumans: What Should We Be Looking for, and Where Should We Be Looking? 120 Lee Alan Dugatkin Chapter 7 Grunts, Gimeys, and Good Intentions: The Origins of Strategic Commitment in Nonhuman Primates 138 Joan B. Silk PART III COMMITMENT IN HUMANS 159 Chapter 8 Honor and "Faking" Honorability 163 Dov Cohen and Joseph Vandello Chapter 9 The Evolution of Subjective Commitment to Groups: A Tribal Instincts Hypothesis 186 Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd Chapter 10 Morality and Commitment 221 Michael Ruse PART IV COMMITMENT IN HUMAN SOCIAL GROUPS 237 Chapter 11 Commitment in the Clinic 240 Randolph M. Nesse Chapter 12 Law and the Biology of Commitment 262 Oliver R. Goodenough Chapter 13 Religion as a Hard-to-Fake Sign of Commitment 292 William Irons Chapter 14 The Future of Commitment 310 Randolph M. Nesse Index 327 Contributors Randolph M. Nesse is professor of psychiatry, professor of psychol ogy, and research associate in the ISR Research Center for Group Dy namics at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program. Eldridge S. Adams is associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Robert Boyd is professor of anthropology at the University of Califor nia, Los Angeles. Dov Cohen is associate professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. Lee Alan Dugatkin is associate professor of biology and Distin guished University Scholar at the University of Louisville. Robert H. Frank is Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. Herbert Gintis is professor of economics at the University of Massa chusetts. Oliver R. Goodenough is professor of law at Vermont Law School and chair of the Planning and Programming Committee of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research in Portola Valley, Califor nia. Jack Hirshleifer is professor emeritus of economics at UCLA. William Irons is professor of anthropology at Northwestern University. Peter J. Richerson is professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis.
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