We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three types of agents: cooperators, defectors and enforcers. The role of enforcers is to punish defectors for overharvesting the resource. Agents are located around a circle and they only...

The general goal of this thesis was to study conditions under which prosocial behavior is established and maintained. I approached these questions by applying predictions and assumptions of evolutionary game theory to human cooperation within experimental settings. Cooperative behavior is an...