Unravelling the many facets of human cooperation in an experimental study.

ABSTRACT: Humans readily cooperate, even with strangers and without prospects of reciprocation. Despite thousands of studies, this finding is not well understood. Most studies focussed on a single aspect of cooperation and were conducted under anonymous conditions. However, cooperation is a multi-faceted phenomenon, involving generosity, readiness to share, fairness, trust, trustworthiness, and willingness to take cooperative risks. Here, we report findings of an experiment where subjects had to make decisions in ten situations representing different aspects of cooperation, both under anonymous and 'personalised' conditions. In an anonymous setting, we found considerable individual variation in each decision situation, while individuals were consistent both within and across situations. Prosocial te

SUBMITTER: Rostovtseva VV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638426 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature