Co-evolution of behaviour and beliefs in social dilemmas: estimating material, social, cognitive and cultural determinants.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and predicting human cooperative behaviour and belief dynamics remains a major challenge both from the scientific and practical perspectives. Because of the complexity and multiplicity of material, social and cognitive factors involved, both empirical and theoretical work tends to focus only on some snippets of the puzzle. Recently, a mathematical theory has been proposed that integrates material, social and cognitive aspects of behaviour and beliefs dynamics to explain how people make decisions in social dilemmas within heterogeneous groups. Here we apply this theory in two countries, China and Spain, through four long-term behavioural experiments utilising the Common Pool Resources game and the Collective Risk game. Our results show that material considerations carry the sm

SUBMITTER: Gavrilets S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658954 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature