Author: Andres Munoz

New Article Published in Human Ecology

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Cooperation in an Uncertain World: For the Maasai of East Africa, Need-Based Transfers Outperform Account-Keeping in Volatile Environments  July 23, 2016 When the going gets tough, should you be stingy or nice? An article written by a team of Human Generosity Project researchers has been published in the journal Human Ecology investigates this very question […]

Athena Aktipis interviewed about the sharing economy

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What do services like Uber and Lyft have to do with need-based transfers? Human Generosity Project co-director Athena Aktipis was interviewed by The Daily Dot about the sharing economy and how it interacts with people’s cognitive mechanisms. “I think it taps into our desire to help others who are in need and to be helped […]

Tom Conte’s successful quest for dissertation research funding

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Mongolia field site supervisor Thomas Conte has successfully obtained funding for his dissertation fieldwork from three sources: the National Science Foundation, Fulbright IIE, and the American Center for Mongolian Studies. Tom will be leaving this summer for long term fieldwork in Mongolia’s Darhad Depression, where he will be looking at risk management, cooperation, and sharing […]

Padmini Iyer’s successful dissertation defense

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On May 4, 2016, HGP team member and Karamoja field site supervisor Padmini Iyer successfully defended her dissertation, which was titled Risk Management Strategies of Male and Female Pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda. Serving on her committee were her advisor Lee Cronk, Rutgers anthropologists Dorothy Hodgson and Ryne Palombit, and Michael Bollig from the University of […]

What are “Need-Based Transfers”?

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What are “Need-Based Transfers”? A Human Generosity Project blog post by Lee Cronk and Athena Aktipis  April 11, 2016 Being a cowboy is a dangerous job. Day-to-day life involves constant grappling with forces much larger than themselves. The ranchers that we study in the Malpai borderlands region of Arizona and New Mexico thrive on their […]