This obligation amounts to a requirement that promisors display greater benevolence for their promisees in respect of unallocated gains within the contract than they were required to display in negotiations concerning these gains without the contract.
According to evolutionary psychologists, such blatant displays of benevolence are the human equivalent of the male peacock's tail.
There may also be less charitable motives behind some public displays of benevolence, as tycoons spooked by a wide-ranging government crackdown on corruption look for less controversial ways to show off their wealth.
Although natural instinct may be defensive self-preservation, and to concede responsibility seems to justify stakeholders' lost trust in the short term, several case studies suggest, paradoxically, that sincere acceptance of culpability and remorse will be interpreted favourably, as a powerful display of benevolence and integrity.
Sentimentality became an important tool for writers on empire, allowing conquest to be portrayed as commerce and scenes of violence and exploitation to be converted into displays of benevolence and pity.
Just as the peacock signals his strength and fitness by displaying his enormous tail – a sheer waste of resources from a practical point of view – costly public acts of benevolence signal to potential mates that one possesses enough resources to give so much away.
Utopias tended to have a placid gloss of phony benevolence, while dystopias displayed a somewhat satanic thunder.
Urban fire may hinder commerce or even spur it; it may break down or reinforce barriers of race, class, and ethnicity; it may serve as a pretext for state violence or provide an opportunity for displays of state benevolence.
In the 10 years that we were close friends what struck me forcibly about Joe was both his benevolence — his remarkable humanity, his disdain for anyone who displayed mediocrity of spirit — and the exuberant catholicism of his interests.
Her visit displays a sharp diversion from Berlin's committment to European 'values' and much relied-upon benevolence for all the remnant dynamics in Turkey for keeping the democratic order alive.
As these human lives collide, James displays real flair for unmasking her characters, with all their foibles and benevolence, but it is the elephant who is the novel's unquestionable star.
