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Translucent Players: Explaining Cooperative Behavior in Social Dilemmas
Valerio Capraro, Joseph Y. Halpern
In the last few decades, numerous experiments have shown that humans do not always behave so as to maximize their material payoff. Cooperative behavior when non-cooperation is a do…
The emergence of hyper-altruistic behaviour in conflictual situations
Valerio Capraro
Situations where people have to decide between hurting themselves or another person are at the core of many individual and global conflicts. Yet little is known about how people be…
Do good actions inspire good actions in others?
Valerio Capraro, Alessandra Marcelletti
Actions such as sharing food and cooperating to reach a common goal have played a fundamental role in the evolution of human societies. These good actions may not maximise the acto…
Benevolent characteristics promote cooperative behaviour among humans
Valerio Capraro, Conor Smyth, Kalliopi Mylona +1
Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperative behaviour in everyday life and in controlled experiments with anonymous people, even…
Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma experiments
Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand
Cooperation in one-shot anonymous interactions is a widely documented aspect of human behaviour. Here we shed light on the motivations behind this behaviour by experimentally explo…
Group size effect on cooperation in social dilemmas
Helene Barcelo, Valerio Capraro
Social dilemmas are central to human society. Depletion of natural resources, climate protection, security of energy supply, and workplace collaborations are all examples of social…