Human cooperation

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Cooperation among strangers with limited information about reputation

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Strategy selection in structured populations

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Evolutionary dynamics in set structured populations

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Co-evolution of behaviour and social network structure promotes human cooperation: Cooperation and self-organization in networks

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Cooperation and assortativity with dynamic partner updating

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The natural selection of bad science

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Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness

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Humans display a ‘cooperative phenotype’ that is domain general and temporally stable

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Growing a social brain

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Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments

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Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games

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Prosocial Conformity: Prosocial Norms Generalize Across Behavior and Empathy

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Promoting cooperation in the field

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Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions

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Cooperation in Groups of Different Sizes: The Effects of Punishment and Reputation-Based Partner Choice

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Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons

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The evolution of trust and trustworthiness

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Increasing altruistic and cooperative behaviour with simple moral nudges

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Social rewards: From basic social building blocks to complex social behavior

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Open Problems in Cooperative AI

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Combination of institutional incentives for cooperative governance of risky commons

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Small Groups and Long Memories Promote Cooperation

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Oxytocin promotes intuitive rather than deliberated cooperation with the in-group

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Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin’s <i>Descent of Man</i>

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Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review

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Opposing Oxytocin Effects on Intergroup Cooperative Behavior in Intuitive and Reflective Minds

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How can we trust a robot?

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Learning moral values: Another’s desire to punish enhances one’s own punitive behavior.

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Early exclusion leads to cyclical cooperation in repeated group interactions

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Cooperation, decision time, and culture: Online experiments with American and Indian participants

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Indirect Reciprocity and the Evolution of Prejudicial Groups

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Evolution of cooperation in a hierarchical society with corruption control

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Signalling boosts the evolution of cooperation in repeated group interactions

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Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents

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Enhancing Cooperation through Selective Interaction and Long-term Experiences in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

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