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 …

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 …

In evolutionary models of indirect reciprocity, reputation mechanisms can stabilize cooperation even in severe … completely. (2) Cooperation can be stabilized against these opportunists, by letting an individual's initial reputation be … cooperation problems like the prisoner's dilemma. Under certain circumstances, conditionally cooperative strategies, which …

Cooperation via indirect reciprocity uses a partner's reputation to enable subjects to direct help to those who … cooperated themselves. As a partner's reputation provides information whether the partner helped a third party in the past or not …, subjects can help those partners with a good reputation. Whereas help in former studies implied a definite monetary transfer to …