This dissertation consists of three distinct studies that apply a variety of experimental tools to
examine methods to elicit honesty, gender differences in negotiation returns, and uncertain …

The number of children within the foster care system has been steadily increasing since
2012, with approximately 400,000 foster care children (US Department of Health and …

All organisms descend from populations with limited resources, so it is clear why evolution
should select strategies that win resources at the expense of competitors. Less obvious is …

The goal of this dissertation is to design and develop behaviors for robots that enable them
to distribute resources in a just and impartial way within group settings. In order for robots to …

The ability to form groups to overcome problems has been crucial for the evolution of human
beings. To favour the formation of cooperating groups, one of the mechanisms developed is …

The ultimatum game, characterizing the allocation behaviors in a two-side context, has been
a natural and influential paradigm for understanding the evolution of fairness. It allows two …

The study of social, ethical, and political issues from a naturalistic perspective has been
pervasive in social sciences and the humanities in the last decades. This articulation of …

Biological market theory has in recent years become an important part of the social
evolutionist's toolkit. This article discusses the explanatory potential and pitfalls of biological …

The ultimatum game (UG) is widely used in economic and anthropological research to
investigate fairness by how one player proposes to divide a resource with a second player …

Prosocial behaviors–such as helping others, donating, and cooperating–are often
considered key to evolutionary suc-cess. Therefore, it is of great interest to understand under …