cooperation is best reply to itself. We give the condition for the existence of the Ostrom threshold in the Nederlander …-Prisoner's Dilemma Game. For high enough cost of failure, cooperation among rational egoists is sustained. The Ostrom threshold first …

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …

We study the coevolution of cooperation, preferences and cooperative signals in an environment where individuals engage …

, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …

We report on an experiment designed to explore whether a written expression of disapproval affects future levels of … cooperation. In between two identical public goods games, participants play a mini dictator game that, depending on the treatment … where we elicit beliefs about the others ́contributions. It turns out that the reductions in contributions, but not the …

The article suggests a new explanation for cooperation in large, unstructured societies that avoids the restrictions … for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm … of the social norm and two parameters measuring the cost of cooperation into relation with each other. …

Previous research on cooperation has primarily focused on egalitarian interactions, overlooking a fundamental feature …-group conflict, individuals who possess high rank or power tend to show less cooperation. How, then, is cooperation achieved within … cooperation and strategies, such as punishment and gossip, to promote cooperation in social dilemmas. In two studies involving …