We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue
that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with …

All social species face various “collective action problems”(CAPs) or “social dilemmas,”
meaning problems in achieving cooperating when the best move from a selfish point of view …

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising?
How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems …

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has
done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes …

When does a common group identity improve efficiency in coordination games? To answer
this question, we propose a group-contingent social preference model and derive conditions …

The study of effort provision in a controlled setting is a key research area in experimental
economics. There are two major methodological paradigms in this literature: stated effort …

Facilitators that use a collaborative governance approach are regularly pushed, mandated,
or naturally desire to achieve broad inclusion of stakeholders in collaborations. How to …

Research on human cooperation has concentrated on the puzzle of altruism, in which 1
actor incurs a cost to benefit another, and the psychology of reciprocity, which evolved to …

Coordination games with Pareto-ranked equilibria have attracted major attention over the
past two decades. Two early path-breaking sets of experimental studies were widely …

Previous experiments using the minimum-effort coordination game reveal a striking
regularity—large groups never coordinate efficiently. Given the frequency with which large …