Links for Thursday, March 20
Mar 20th, 2008 by Jill
- Physorg.com: Punishment does not earn rewards or cooperation, study finds – This study isn’t about parenting — it’s about punishment as a way to encourage or discourage certain behavior among collaborators. I couldn’t help thinking about relationships between houses in extended stepfamilies when I read it. “‘Put simply, winners don’t punish,’ says co-author David G. Rand of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and Department of Systems Biology. ‘Punishment can lead to a downward spiral of retaliation, with destructive outcomes for everybody involved. The people with the highest total payoffs do not use costly punishment.’ ‘Costly punishment,’ the type of punitive behavior studied by Nowak and his colleagues, refers to situations where a punisher is willing to incur a cost in order to penalize someone else.“ (more)
- Shonnie Brown, Co-Parent Empowerment Group of Sonoma County: The Power in Being Wrong – “It is a misapprehension that admitting a mistake makes one weak...” (more)
- Peggy’s Musings: Love and Devotion – Stories about dogs’ extraordinary devotion lead Peggy to think about what we could learn from them about love. (more)
