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

Social norms are patterns of behavior that are self-enforcing within a group: Everyone
conforms, everyone is expected to conform, and everyone wants to conform when they …

We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions and apply it to
resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history:(1) the rise of large-scale …

Most vaccines protect both the vaccinated individual and the society by reducing the
transmission of infectious diseases. In order to eliminate infectious diseases, individuals …

Since the origins of agriculture, the scale of human cooperation and societal complexity has
dramatically expanded,. This fact challenges standard evolutionary explanations of …

The bureaucratic organizational structure has been recently challenged by a number of
organizations that claim to offer employee emancipation and autonomy through self …

Corporate culture is an omnibus term that includes many elements that are relevant to a firm,
like norms, values, knowledge, and customs. Economists have made great progress recently …

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 …

Instrumental stakeholder theory proposes a positive relationship between fairness toward
stakeholders and firm performance. Yet, some firms are successful with an arms‐length …

How effective are rewards (for cooperation) and punishment (for noncooperation) as tools to
promote cooperation in social dilemmas or situations when immediate self-interest and …