The social factors that influence cooperation have remained largely uninvestigated but have the potential to explain … dominance hierarchy, and the patterns of dispersal, may influence the emergence and stability of cooperation in predictable ways … experiments that will allow relevant advances in the understanding of the emergence of cooperation. …

for cooperation, this article proposes a novel theory in which the emergence of norms can be understood as a bargaining …

viscosity on the emergence of cooperation in the commons dilemma. Viscosity represents a specific form of openness that will be … examined in the paper. An initial series of experiments demonstrates the role of tags in the n-player dilemma while subsequent … experiments examine the impact of openness on the evolution of agent strategies. The paper shows the emergence of cooperation …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

enjoy the benefits without necessarily contributing. Nonetheless, in real-life scenarios cooperation does not collapse … false good behavior. Having a model with richer social mechanisms enable us to test how cooperation develops in situations …