Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct …

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct …

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect … reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma …

whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the traveler's dilemma in the gain …

break joint cooperation. In equilibrium agents share the same categorization, but achieve less cooperation than if they … cooperation. We model agents’ learning when they imitate successful players over similar games, but lack any information about the … categorization that achieves higher cooperation than under perfect discrimination. …

We study cooperation in an environment where public good providers face the decision to accept a newcomer to their … experiment, varying first whether inclusion of a newcomer is exogenously imposed through a random draw or endogenously decided on … cooperation outcomes significantly. Providing information on prior prosocialty, however, constitutes a significant determinant for …

cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition from all individuals being partner over blended … composition does not affect cooperation in the subsequent partner setting with one exception: Groups cooperate significantly less …

Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we … computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however …