Doctoral Disseration Research: Population Structure and Large-Scale Cooperation in Pohang, South Korea

华盛顿大学博士生金俊宏（Jun-Hong Kim）将在达里尔·j·霍尔曼（Darryl J. Holman）博士的指导下进行研究，以检验大规模合作的结构，并检验来自文化群体选择理论的假设。为了解释家庭成员之外的合作和公共产品的创造，必须探索人类文化特有的特性。人类坚持文化规范，并对那些不遵守文化规范的人，或那些利用他人利他行为的人，制定了制裁措施。文化群体选择理论将这些“道德情操”纳入解释群体间社会规范和合作的差异。这项研究对文化进化理论和对人类如何合作的更普遍的理解都很重要。Kim的研究将在韩国浦项的高中生中进行。该项目有四个目的：(1)测试社会支持（来自家庭、学校等）对青少年帮助他人的动机是否重要；(2)检验亲社会个体是否倾向于与其他亲社会个体交朋友；(3)检验个体的亲社会性和优先交往是否与邻里质量相关；(4)检验具有高“社会”品质的社区是否包含更多会制裁违规者的个体。Kim将使用混合方法收集数据，包括调查，半结构化访谈，人种学观察和实验游戏。这项研究的见解可以潜在地应用于提高儿童和青少年生活质量的社区项目。资助这项研究也支持了研究生的教育。

University of Washington doctoral student Jun-Hong Kim, under the supervision of Dr. Darryl J. Holman, will undertake research to examine the structure of large-scale cooperation and to test the hypotheses derived from cultural group selection theory. In order to explain cooperation beyond household members and explain the creation of public goods, the peculiarities unique to human culture must be explored. Humans uphold cultural norms and have developed sanctions for those who do not follow them, or for those who take advantage of altruistic behaviors in others. Cultural group selection theory incorporates these "moral sentiments" in explaining between-group differences of social norms and cooperativeness. The research is important both to cultural evolutionary theory and to more general understandings of how human beings cooperate.Kim's research will be carried out in Pohang, South Korea among high school students. The project has four aims: (1) test whether social support (from family, school and so on) is important to adolescents' motivation for helping others; (2) test whether prosocial individuals preferentially tend to befriend other prosocial individuals; (3) test whether an individual's prosociality and preferential association are linked with neighborhood quality; and (4) test whether a neighborhood with high "social" qualities contains more individuals who will sanction norm violators. Kim will collect data using mixed methods, including surveys, semi-structured interviews, ethnographic observations and experimental games. Insights from this study can potentially be applied to neighborhood projects that enhance the quality of life for children and adolescents. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.