Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Evolutionary game theory is a truly interdisciplinary subject that goes well beyond the limits
of biology. Mathematical minds get hooked up in simple models for evolution and often …

“Surprising and remarkable… Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his
personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and …

Why should you help a competitor? Why should you contribute to the public good if free
riders reap the benefits of your generosity? Cooperation in a competitive world is a …

Cooperation is central to human social behaviour,,,,,,,,. However, choosing to cooperate
requires individuals to incur a personal cost to benefit others. Here we explore the cognitive …

Why would natural selection favor the prevalence of cooperation within the groups of selfish
individuals? A fruitful framework to address this question is evolutionary game theory, the …

The decoy effect is a cognitive bias documented in behavioural economics by which the
presence of a third,(partly) inferior choice causes a significant shift in people's preference for …

Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Network reciprocity has been widely advertised in theoretical studies as one of the basic
cooperation-promoting mechanisms, but experimental evidence favoring this type of …

" And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein
is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The …