Richard Linklater

We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite.

American Director

Paul Bloom

It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.

Canadian Psychologist

Rebecca MacKinnon

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.

American Journalist

Wayne Dyer

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

American Psychologist

William Arthur Ward

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

American Writer

Rakul Preet Singh

I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.

Indian Actress

John Grierson

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

British Director

Jens Martin Skibsted

Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.

Danish Designer

Erica Fernandes

Its really important to have cooperative co-actors when you're working and specially when you are doing a daily soap.

Gale Norton

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

American Public Servant

Stresses the importance of working well in a team setting.

Teamwork Spirit

Reflects a willing and helpful attitude towards others.

Positive Attitude

Highlights ownership and decision-making by users, not external investors.

Members' Involvement

Members share in profits and decisions, different from traditional businesses.

Shared Benefits

Emphasizes collaboration for achieving a shared objective.

Common Goal Focus

Shows the expectation of reciprocal help among participants.

Mutual Support

Connects to the wider social movement championing cooperation.

Movement Identity

Underlines the community-driven, rather than profit-driven, motive.

Social Purpose

 give some of your own money to punish people who aren't contributing you can do that and as soon as people heard about the punishment issue going on cooperation shoots up it shoots up and it keeps going up there's a lot of research showing that to solve cooperative problems it really helps it's not enough to just appeal to people's good motives it really helps to have some sort of

The moral roots of...

 cooperation shoots up. It shoots up and it keeps going up. Lots of research shows that to solve cooperative problems, it really helps. It's not enough to appeal to people's good motives. It helps to have some sort of punishment. Even if it's just shame or embarrassment or gossip, you need some sort of punishment to bring people, when they're in large groups, to cooperate.

Jonathan Haidt: The...

 started to change at that time. So we have this image in political science, economics, the humanities, the philosophy for that matter, that man is a wolf to man. And so deep down, our nature is actually nasty. I think it's a very unfair image for the wolf. The wolf is, after all, a very cooperative animal.

Moral behavior in...

 They also tackle problems cooperatively, sometimes even outwitting the researchers and manipulating their partners. And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes. The rare combination of memory and problem solving

Why elephants never...

 were designed for the right-handed majority. Because lefties are worse at using these tools, and suffer from higher accident rates, they would be less successful in a purely cooperative world, eventually disappearing from the population. So by correctly predicting the distribution

Why are some people...

 adults taking on an even larger blue in the later piece regardless any observation of a group of killer whales successfully overcoming a challenges significant under the blue whale is both incredibly rare and immensely inspiring their cooperative effort and outcome of

Killer whale society PIPE...

 when someone else agrees to believe the lie. So I know it may sound like tough love, but look, if at some point you got lied to, it's because you agreed to get lied to. Truth number one about Lying's a cooperative act. Now not all lies are harmful.

How to spot a liar PIPE...

 Many may not think of cats as serviceable sailors, or cooperative companions of any kind. But cats have been working alongside humans for thousands of years - helping us just as often as we help them.

The history of the world...

 Being a teacher I have been teaching my students to be to be very, very, very cooperative and think about universality. So that we can live together peacefully.

We Are What We Eat:...

 But crocodiles are cooperative feeders. They work together.

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