cooperation. In between two identical public goods games, participants play a mini dictator game that, depending on the treatment …

Cooperation is widely recognized to be fundamental for the well-balanced development of human societies. Several … different approaches have been proposed to explain the emergence of cooperation in populations of individuals playing the … cooperation for these classes of games. We find the conditions for which these Nash equilibria are asymptotically stable, and we …

cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where … antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment was detrimental to cooperation. The success of punishment in enhancing … cooperation was explained as deterrence of free riders by cooperative strong reciprocators, who were willing to pay the cost of …

Evolution of cooperation has traditionally been studied by assuming that individuals adopt either of two pure … strategies, to cooperate or defect. Recent work has considered continuous cooperative investments, turning full cooperation and … promotes the evolution of cooperation, our investigation gives a comprehensive picture of how relatedness affects the evolution …

We experimentally compare the consequences for group cooperation of two decision mechanisms involving the extension of …