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the evolution of cooperative behaviour in humans and other species. Many effective mechanisms and promotive scenarios have … cooperation research is presented, followed by two new objections to such an exclusive focus on PD-based models of social … cooperation themselves came to cooperate: Behavioural and/or psychological mechanisms which evolved for other, possibly more …
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observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …
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groups but where entrepreneurs have a desire for cooperation and peace. We assert that it is members of the elites who start …
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cost-benefit ratio (CBR). There are indeed only two stable sets of equilibria enabling cooperation, one for low CBRs …-order discriminators which highlights the necessity for higher-order information to sustain cooperation through indirect reciprocity. In a …
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anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …
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Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game … punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional …
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I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, including rent seeking, R&D, oligopoly, public goods provision, and tragedy of the commons. I show that information about other players'...
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We study a model in which two players with opposing interests try to alter a status quo through instability-generating actions. We show that instability can be used to secure longer-term durable changes, even if it is costly to generate and does not generate short-term gains. In equilibrium,...
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This article shows within a simple growth model how the make up of society affects economic performance when property rights are unenforceable. It investigates behavior of non-cooperative social groups that consume, produce, and appropriate resources either peacefully or through contest. For the...
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Human players in our laboratory experiment received flow payoffs over 120 seconds each period from a standard Hawk-Dove bimatrix game played in continuous time. Play converged closely to the symmetric mixed Nash equilibrium under a one-population matching protocol. When the same players were...
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