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 …

human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly …

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring … monitoring, where actions can only be observed with noise, cooperation is stable only when subjects can communicate before every …

equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …

concept of cooperation and explore the extent to which this intervention brings about changes in people’s voluntary … contributions to the public good and self-reported emotional responses. Our findings suggest that priming cooperation increases …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans …