-based social preferences suggest that negative externalities make collusion harder to sustain than predicted by standard economic … theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be … implemented by letting subjects make a positive contribution to a public good if they choose to defect from cooperation, i …

artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We study the deter-minants and forms of algorithmic cooperation in the … prisoner’s dilemma games played by humans in the lab. We find that the same factors that increase human cooperation largely … also determine the cooperation rates of algorithms. However, algorithms tend to play different strategies than humans …

equilibrium remains an open question. With restrictions of simple symmetry with eternal mutual cooperation, defection, or (matched …

Social interactions predominantly take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature explains cooperation … paper provides a causal test of the importance of social preferences for cooperation, varying the composition of …-registered experiments (N = 1,074), we show that groups of prosocial individuals achieve substantially higher levels of cooperation. The …

opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who are similar but have different … long-run losses. Initially similar, cooperation rates for groups with different intelligence levels diverge, declining in … groups of lower intelligence, and increasing to reach almost full cooperation levels in groups of higher intelligence …

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against … disrupts coordination on outcomes with positive payoffs, as higher intelligence players try to force their most preferred …. Disclosure does not significantly affect coordination rates. Differently from the low payoff inequality game, coordination is …

mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation … higher cooperation rates and profits than in separated groups (with consistent gains among lower IQ subjects and relatively …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

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 …