Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result,
people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly …

Recent efforts to understand the mechanisms underlying human cooperation have focused
on the notion of trust, with research illustrating that both initial impressions and previous …

Moral judgments play a critical role in motivating and enforcing human cooperation, and
research on the proximate mechanisms of moral judgments highlights the importance of …

The human face appears to play a key role in signaling social intentions and usually people
form reliable and strong impressions on the basis of someone's facial appearance …

Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive
underpinnings of cooperative decision making. Does cooperation require deliberate self …

The benefits of a good reputation can help explain why some individuals are willing to be
altruistic in situations where they will not receive direct benefits. Recent experiments on …

This paper experimentally investigates if and how beliefs, trust, and risk attitudes are
associated with cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to …

It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human
cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi …

In social dilemmas, equality is an important coordination rule. When equality is violated,
people seek explanations. In Experiment 1, the authors assessed dispositional trust and …

Interpersonal trust is essential for a productive and rewarding social life, yet it presents many
theoretical puzzles, particularly among strangers, because its existence violates the rational …