Anthropological evidence suggests that the human species has evolved what could be called a "trading instinct" over millions of years of Darwinian adaptation, where trade acts as a social catalyst and thus as a suppressor of violent conflict among trading groups. Yet, the geographical and...

This paper discusses a variety of empirical findings suggesting that surprise is positively related with enhanced memory recall. This opens the door for the assumption that surprising stimuli can be used in a controlled way to enhance learning. A predictive model based on a Darwinian...

Studies of e-collaboration from a game-theoretic perspective are practically nonexistent. This article contributes to filling this gap by focusing on the strategic interaction between players as they decide whether and how much to collaborate with each other.We use evolutionary game theory to...

The ongoing debate regarding the significance of religion and language on economic performance (GDP) is inconclusive and non-exhaustive. We present a non-parametric partial least square – structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis of within-country diversity and GDP. With a sample of 46...

Let us say that a coincidence involving two events, where one seems to predict the other, happens a number of times. How many times until it can be considered not only a coincidence, but a statistically significant pattern? We propose a framework to answer this question. Using the framework, we...