This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …

of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …

key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of … cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …-individual differences in dispositional types affect the responsiveness of people's motives to their social settings. The evolution of these …

-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions …

's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. Following Mengel (2018 … defectors and co-operators respectively, while an index of efficiency captures the gains from cooperation. We conduct two …

's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation. …