Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

Do economics students behave more selfishly than other students? Experiments involving
monetary allocations suggest so. This article investigates the underlying motives for the …

Some argue that frequent confrontation with the homo economicus actor-concept motivates
economists to adjust their behavior to that paradigm. Another thesis is that economists are …

The ultimatum game is a common economic experiment in which some participants reject
another's unfair offer of how to split some money, even though it leaves them both worse off …

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can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something …

Over the past decades, there has been considerable interest in individual differences in
cooperative behaviour and how these can be explained. Whereas the Honesty–Humility …

Context frames such as describing a Prisoner's Dilemma as a “community” or a “stock
exchange” game cause significant variation in cooperative behaviour. Here, we draw on …

Together we can achieve things that we could never do on our own. In fact, there are sheer
endless opportunities for producing morally desirable outcomes together with others …

There is a growing body of research in the literature that investigates the relationship
between emotions and decision-making in socio-economic contexts. Previous research has …

Cooperation is the foundation of human social life, but it sometimes requires individuals to
choose against their individual self-interest. How then is cooperation sustained? How do we …