Despite the fact that cooperation is essential to our society, our selfish inclinations regularly take the upper hand. The purpose of the present study was to investigate to what extent people’s choices to cooperate are motivated by a collective goal. Previous research on goal-directed behaviour has shown that action-outcome learning can facilitate goal-directed behaviour through the presence and the right timing of a positive signal. The current study extends these researches by also focussing on the persistency of cooperation as a known characteristic of goal-directed behaviour. A laboratory experiment was conducted with 76 participants. The participants started with a joint action task, in which action-outcome learning and reward learnin...
Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperative behav...
Cooperation is usually explained from an economic perspective focused mainly on the tangible outcome...
<div><p>Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperati...
Cooperation is necessary in many types of human joint activity and relations. Evidence suggests that...
BACKGROUND: Cooperation is necessary in many types of human joint activity and relations. Evidence s...
We report on an experimental study where human subjects (N=176) had to take decisions in ten game-li...
Why do some individuals cooperate with their fellow human beings while others take advantage of them...
Humans are characterised by a strong proclivity towards two traits: cooperation and social learning....
Social interactions predominantly take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature exp...
In three empirical experiments, this dissertation studies how cooperative norms emerge over time in ...
Social dilemmas are ―situations in which each decision maker is best off acting in his own self-inte...
Cooperation is essential for the success of societies and there is an ongoing debate whether individ...
Is collaboration the fast choice for humans? Past studies proposed that cooperation is a behavioural...
Abstract. Axelrod (1992) highlighted the important role of cooperation in actors’ strategy and perfo...
Social interdependence theory has provided a conceptual framework to understand cooperation and comp...
Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperative behav...
Cooperation is usually explained from an economic perspective focused mainly on the tangible outcome...
<div><p>Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperati...
Cooperation is necessary in many types of human joint activity and relations. Evidence suggests that...
BACKGROUND: Cooperation is necessary in many types of human joint activity and relations. Evidence s...
We report on an experimental study where human subjects (N=176) had to take decisions in ten game-li...
Why do some individuals cooperate with their fellow human beings while others take advantage of them...
Humans are characterised by a strong proclivity towards two traits: cooperation and social learning....
Social interactions predominantly take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature exp...
In three empirical experiments, this dissertation studies how cooperative norms emerge over time in ...
Social dilemmas are ―situations in which each decision maker is best off acting in his own self-inte...
Cooperation is essential for the success of societies and there is an ongoing debate whether individ...
Is collaboration the fast choice for humans? Past studies proposed that cooperation is a behavioural...
Abstract. Axelrod (1992) highlighted the important role of cooperation in actors’ strategy and perfo...
Social interdependence theory has provided a conceptual framework to understand cooperation and comp...
Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperative behav...
Cooperation is usually explained from an economic perspective focused mainly on the tangible outcome...
<div><p>Cooperation is fundamental to the evolution of human society. We regularly observe cooperati...