Competition over Personal Resources Favors Contribution to Shared Resources in Human Groups.docVIP

CompetitionoverPersonalResourcesFavors ContributiontoSharedResourcesinHumanGroups JessicaL.Barker1*¤,PatBarclay2,H.KernReeve1 1DepartmentofNeurobiologyandBehavior,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NewYork,UnitedStatesofAmerica,2DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofGuelph,Guelph, Ontario,Canada Abstract Membersofsocialgroupsfaceatrade-offbetweeninvestingselfisheffortforthemselvesandinvestingcooperativeeffortto produce a shared group resource. Many group resources are shared equitably: they may be intrinsically non-excludable publicgoods,suchasvigilanceagainstpredators,orsolargethatthereislittlecosttosha