HGP Members Engage With the Community During Rutgers Day On Saturday, April 30, Rutgers Human Generosity Project team members Lee Cronk, Thomas Conte, Cathryn Townsend, and Denise Mercado participated in Rutgers Day, the university’s annual spring festival and open house. Their display featured The Survival Game, in which people pretend to be Maasai herders. […]
Author: Andres Munoz
Exhibitizing Cooperation
Exhibitizing Cooperation By Hugh McDonald, Ph.D. Exhibition Consultant and Principal Investigator, Science of Sharing Project “No way! I lost a lot of cows last year!” is not something you’d expect to hear on the floor of a science museum. But with the introduction of an interactive exhibit called The Survival Game, modeled on a […]
HGP Featured in Rutgers Magazine
HGP Featured in Rutgers Magazine Rutgers Magazine, a magazine that is widely distributed to alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of Rutgers University, recently published a news story about the Human Generosity Project. The story focuses on the research being conducted by HGP Mongolia field site supervisor Thomas Conte and Ik field site supervisor Cathryn […]
Human Generosity Project members visit Arizona’s Malpai Ranch
Human Generosity Project members visit Arizona’s Malpai Ranch On April 22, 2017, Human Generosity co-director Lee Cronk (at the far right in the above photo) and Maasai field site supervisor Dennis Sonkoi (far left) visited the Malpai Ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. The ranch is home to Warner Glenn (next to […]
HGP Hosts Fitness Interdependence Workshop
Fitness Interdependence Workshop, February 2017 On February 17 and 18, Human Generosity Project members met with a group of biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists to discuss the concept of fitness interdependence and its implications for the study of cooperation. Participants travelled from as nearby as Arizona State University and as far away as Oxford […]
Tom Conte’s successful quest for dissertation research funding
Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences recently recognized Mongolia field site supervisor Thomas Conte for successfully obtaining funding for his dissertation fieldwork. He obtained his funding from three sources: the National Science Foundation, Fulbright IIE, and the American Center for Mongolian Studies. Tom is currently conducting field-work in Mongolia’s Darhad Depression, where he is looking […]
HGP team members send survey to ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico
HGP team members send survey to ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico In early February, Rutgers undergraduate research assistant Anna Flaherty worked with Human Generosity Project co-director Lee Cronk to package and ship surveys to more than one thousand ranchers in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The data generated by these surveys […]
HGP Featured in Rutgers Newsletter
Human Generosity Project Researchers Interviewed for Access Newsletter The Human Generosity project was featured in Access, a newsletter published by Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences. The article provides an overview of the project’s research goals, which are centered around the question of why people help each other. Project director Lee Cronk, Mongolia […]
Human Generosity Project Meeting in Minneapolis
Human Generosity Project Members Discuss their Research in Minneapolis, MN Human Generosity Project researchers met in Minneapolis during the American Anthropological Association conference in November to discuss their findings. The meeting began with a discussion about how the project’s multidisciplinary approach that includes modeling, field work, and laboratory experiments is uniquely suited for investigating resource […]
Do Human and Vampire Bat Friendships Share the Same Origin?
Human Generosity Project Members Interviewed about Their Research for an Article Published by Sapiens September 1, 2016 Human Generosity Project co-director Lee Cronk and Human Generosity Project member Dennis Sonkoi were interviewed by online publisher Sapiens for an article about friendship. Cronk and Sonkoi described their research with the Maasai people, a pastoral ethnic group […]