Self-interested learning is more important than fair-minded conditional cooperation in public-goods games

Why does human cooperation often unravel in economic experiments despite a promising start? Previous studies have interpreted the decline as the reaction of disappointed altruists retaliating in response to non-altruists (Conditional Cooperators hypothesis). This interpretation has been considered e...

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Main Authors: Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Claire Guérin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X22000457/type/journal_article