Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive underpinnings of … cooperative decision-making. Does cooperation require deliberate self-restraint? Or is spontaneous prosociality reined in by … calculating self-interest? Here we present a theory of why (and for whom) intuition favors cooperation: cooperation is typically …

social heuristics, suggest boundary conditions on spillover effects of cooperation, and demonstrate the power of effective … institutions for instilling habits of virtue and creating cultures of cooperation …

We review two fundamentally different ways that decision time is related to cooperation. First, studies have … experimentally manipulated decision time to understand how cooperation is related to the use of intuition versus deliberation …. Current evidence supports the claim that time pressure (and, more generally, intuition) favors cooperation. Second …

: promoting intuition versus deliberation has typically a positive effect on cooperation (dynamism) among people living in a … cooperative setting and with no previous experience in economic games on cooperation (history-dependence). Here we report on a lab … that cooperation is a learning process, rather than an instinctive impulse or a self-controlled choice, and that experience …