The evolution and maintenance of cooperation in human and animal societies challenges various disciplines ranging from …. The problem of cooperation becomes even more pronounced when increasing the number of interacting individuals. Punishment … interactions plays a pivotal role, which paves the way for the establishment of cooperation and punishment. …

Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … detrimental effects. In a public goods game, privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation in relation to a baseline …, cooperation is sustained at significantly higher rates than in both baseline and private punishment treatments. Our data provide …

altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel …."This dissertation develops game theoretic models of social dilemmas with individuals who are rational in the sense that they have …

." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to … across individuals. In the research reported here, we examine two models of heterogeneous utility, linear-altruism and … the contest of two-person social dilemma games. In addition, we examine data from experiments and survey instruments that …

managers over a four-year period. Of particular relevance was the complex interplay between UIP politics, social constructions …

regression showed that the variables of the cultural, social, personal and psychological impact of positive and significant …

Perspective taking has been associated in the literature with social skills, interpersonal communication, problem …-taking accuracy and stereotype accuracy were measured on 'product attributes importance weights' and 'customer's social style …, were: product perspective-taking accuracy, social style stereotype accuracy, and adaptive selling (with an unanticipated …