Decades of research document individual differences in prosocial behavior using controlled
experiments that model social interactions in situations of interdependence. However …

Why should you help a competitor? Why should you contribute to the public good if free
riders reap the benefits of your generosity? Cooperation in a competitive world is a …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Humans often cooperate with strangers, despite the costs involved. A long tradition of
theoretical modeling has sought ultimate evolutionary explanations for this seemingly …

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

Are humans intuitively altruistic, or does altruism require self-control? A theory of social
heuristics, whereby intuitive responses favor typically successful behaviors, suggests that …

A fast growing number of studies demonstrates that language diversity influences almost all
management decisions in modern multinational corporations. Whereas no doubt remains …

Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making
decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different …

Do people intuitively favour certain actions over others? In some dual-process research,
reaction-time (RT) data have been used to infer that certain choices are intuitive. However …

Psychologists and economists have examined the effect of cognitive load in a variety of
situations from risk taking to snack choice. We review previous experiments that have …