RT Journal Article
T1 Deciding to cooperate in Northern Ghana: trust as an evolutionary constraint across cultural diversity.
A1 Acedo-Carmona, Cristina
A1 Gomila Benejam, Antoni
K1 Cooperación (Psicología)
K1 Confianza - Aspectos sociales
K1 Psicología social
AB The upper-east and northern regions of Ghana offers a unique opportunity to study the influence of evolutionary social dynamics in making cooperation possible, despite cultural differences. These regions are occupied by several distinct ethnic groups, in interaction, such as the Kussasi, Mamprusi, Bimoba, Konkomba, and Fulani. We will report our fieldwork related to how cooperation takes places there, both within each group and among people from the different groups. Methods included personal networks of cooperation (ego networks), interviews and analysis of group contexts. The most important result is that, while each ethnic group may differ in terms of family and clan structure, a similar pattern can be found in all of them, of cooperation structured around small groups of trust-based close relationships. The study suggests that habitual decisions about cooperation are not strategic or self-interested, but instead are based on unconscious processes sustained by the emotional bonds of trust. These kind of emotional bonds are claimed to be relevant from an evolutionary point of view.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37931
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37931
LA eng
NO Acedo-Carmona, C. y Gomila, A. Deciding to cooperate in Northern Ghana: trust as an evolutionary constraint across cultural diversity. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 18, e91, pp. 1–16, ISSN: 1138-7416.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/24424
NO Proyecto “Evolució i cognició humana (EvoCog)”, nº 17/2011, financiado por la Conselleria d'Innovació, Interior i Justícia de las Islas Baleares. Proyecto “La naturaleza moral y estética humana”, nº FFI2010-20759, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.Proyecto “Las bases intersubjetivas de la moralidad humana”, nº FFI2013-44007-P, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.Beca FPU-Formación del Profesorado Universitario, nº AP2009-3369, financiada por el Ministerio de Educación de España.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 25 ene 2026