Experimental games model situations in which the future outcomes of individuals and
groups depend on their own choices and on those of other (groups of) individuals. Games …

Highlights•Social rank in humans derives from the capacity to inflict costs (dominance) or the
capacity to benefit others (prestige).•Evidence indicates that social rank accrues to …

Direct and indirect reciprocity are key mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation. Direct
reciprocity means that individuals use their own experience to decide whether to cooperate …

Direct reciprocity is a powerful mechanism for cooperation in social dilemmas. The very logic
of reciprocity, however, seems to require that individuals are symmetric, and that everyone …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 122 (5) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2022-52639-002). In the article (https://doi …

Many human interactions feature the characteristics of social dilemmas where individual
actions have consequences for the group and the environment. The feedback between …

We present a major new release of the PRISM-games model checker, featuring multiple
significant advances in its support for verification and strategy synthesis of stochastic games …

Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health
metrics, and societal well‐being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on …

One landmark application of evolutionary game theory is the study of social dilemmas. This
literature explores why people cooperate even when there are strong incentives to defect …

In evolutionary game theory, the emergence and maintenance of cooperative behavior in a
population often face challenges posed by the temptation of free-riding behavior, which …