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

Broadly defined, social dilemmas involve a conflict between immediate self-interest and
longer-term collective interests. These are challenging situations because acting in one's …

Many theories of trust emphasize that trust is most relevant to behavior in situations involving
a conflict of interests. However, it is not clear how trust relates to behavior across situations …

Although it is commonly believed that women are kinder and more cooperative than men,
there is conflicting evidence for this assertion. Current theories of sex differences in social …

Interdependent situations are pervasive in human life. In these situations, it is essential to
form expectations about the others' behaviour to adapt one's own behaviour to increase …

In an influential paper, Kosfeld et al.(2005) showed that intranasal administration of oxytocin
(OT) increases the transfers made by investors in the trust game—suggesting that OT …

The COVID‐19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study which factors drive
compliance and how the evolving context in society–virus fluctuations and changing …

One of the most continually vexing problems in society is the variability with which citizens
support endeavors that are designed to help a great number of people. In this article, we …

Understanding the roots of prosocial behavior is an interdisciplinary research endeavor that
has generated an abundance of empirical data across many disciplines. This review …

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