During social interactions in daily life, people possess imperfect knowledge of their
interdependence (ie, how behaviors affect each person's outcomes), and what people infer …

What motivates human behaviour in social dilemmas? The results of public goods games
are commonly interpreted as showing that humans are altruistically motivated to benefit …

Human cooperation (paying a cost to benefit others) is puzzling from a Darwinian
perspective, particularly in groups with strangers who cannot repay nor are family members …

Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also
one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it. It turns out …

The emergence of cooperation is a central issue in understanding collective behavior and
evolution. The eco-evolutionary game model introduces a human–environment coupling …

Human cooperation is often claimed to be special and requiring explanations based on
gene–culture coevolution favouring a desire to copy common social behaviours. If this is …

Cooperation is fundamental for survival and a functioning society. With substantial individual
variability in cooperativeness, we must learn whom to cooperate with, and often make these …

Why does human cooperation often unravel in economic experiments despite a promising
start? Previous studies have interpreted the decline as the reaction of disappointed altruists …

In many collective action problems individuals' contributions increase the probability of a
collectively favorable event rather than affect the quantity of public goods provided. Such …

Interaction quality during cooperative exchanges affects children's ability to successfully
coordinate their actions with a same-aged peer to attain a shared goal. However, it is …