Publications by authors named "Joe Blythe"

Prosociality and cooperation are key to what makes us human. But different cultural norms can shape our evolved capacities for interaction, leading to differences in social relations. How people share resources has been found to vary across cultures, particularly when stakes are high and when interactions are anonymous.

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Gratitude is argued to have evolved to motivate and maintain social reciprocity among people, and to be linked to a wide range of positive effects-social, psychological and even physical. But is socially reciprocal behaviour dependent on the expression of gratitude, for example by saying 'thank you' as in English? Current research has not included cross-cultural elements, and has tended to conflate gratitude as an emotion with gratitude as a linguistic practice, as might appear to be the case in English. Here, we ask to what extent people express gratitude in different societies by focusing on episodes of everyday life where someone seeks and obtains a good, service or support from another, comparing these episodes across eight languages from five continents.

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Article Synopsis
  • Human language has built-in mechanisms to detect and fix communication problems, highlighting its adaptive value in social interactions.
  • A study across 12 languages shows that there's a universal system called 'other-initiated repair' where recipients can signal confusion and request clarification from the sender.
  • This system operates similarly in unrelated languages, suggesting that while grammar may differ culturally, fundamental aspects of language use remain consistent globally, pointing to a cooperative nature of human communication.
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