Reputation and reciprocity are key mechanisms for cooperation in human societies, often
going hand in hand to favor prosocial behavior over selfish actions. Here we review recent …

Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Punishment is a popular tool when governing commons in situations where free riders
would otherwise take over. It is well known that sanctioning systems, such as the police and …

Economic experiments have shown that punishment can increase public goods game
contributions over time. However, the effectiveness of punishment is challenged by second …

In social dilemmas, individuals face a conflict between their own self-interest and the
collective interest of the group. The provision of reward has been shown to be an effective …

Polymatrix games belong to a class of multi-player games, in which players interact
pairwisely and the underlying pairwise interactions are defined by a simple undirected …

Utilizing common resources is always a dilemma for community members. While cooperator
players restrain themselves and consider the proper state of resources, defectors demand …

Finding appropriate incentives to enforce collaborative efforts for governing the commons in
risky situations is a long-lasting challenge. Previous works have demonstrated that both …

Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data
underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and …

Reward and punishment change the payoff structures of social interactions and therefore
can potentially play a role in promoting prosocial behavior. Yet, there are boundary …