This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish … maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualised as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social …

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish … maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social …

and/or communication support altruistic cooperation to sustain the welfare of future generations. Without punishment or … punishment with communication strongly increases cooperation, showing that an effective decentralized solution to a Game of …We characterize 'Games of Altruistic Cooperation' as a class of games in which cooperation leaves the individual and …

cooperative behavior include assortative matching in groups, group longevity, and punishment-based group norms. …

This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game … with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime … punishment regime). We employ a within-subjects design where subjects experience both environments and control for order effects …