The natural tendency for humans to make and break relationships is thought to facilitate the
emergence of cooperation. In particular, allowing conditional cooperators to choose with …

Can decentralization of political powers increase trust in government? We present quasi-
experimental evidence from Ukraine where political trust has been among the lowest levels …

Explaining the emergence and maintenance of cooperation among selfish individuals from
an evolutionary perspective remains a grand challenge in biology, economy and social …

This chapter reviews the existing literature that has identified functional or beneficial effects
of ostracizing behaviors relevant to organizational contexts, and proposes the potential or …

The exclusion of freeriders from common privileges or public acceptance is widely found in
the real world. Current models on the evolution of cooperation with incentives mostly …

The notions of one's social identity and group membership have recently become topics for
economic theory and experiments, and recent research has shown the importance of identity …

Cooperative behaviour has been extensively studied as a choice between cooperation and
defection. However, the possibility to not participate is also frequently available. This type of …

This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the
establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and …

Prosocial punishment has been proved to be a powerful mean to promote cooperation.
Recent studies have found that social exclusion, which indeed can be regarded as a kind of …

Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool
resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact …