Reputation and reciprocity are key mechanisms for cooperation in human societies, often
going hand in hand to favor prosocial behavior over selfish actions. Here we review recent …

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 …

We live and cooperate in networks. However, links in networks only allow for pairwise
interactions, thus making the framework suitable for dyadic games, but not for games that …

Cooperation is key to prosperity in human societies. Population structure is well understood
as a catalyst for cooperation, where research has focused on pairwise interactions. But …

Learning to cooperate is crucially important in multi-agent environments. The key is to
understand the mutual interplay between agents. However, multi-agent environments are …

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 …

Matrix games like Prisoner's Dilemma have guided research on social dilemmas for
decades. However, they necessarily treat the choice to cooperate or defect as an atomic …

Empathy reflects the natural ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of
others, coupled with a motivation to care for their well-being. It has evolved in the context of …

Evolution occurs in populations of reproducing individuals. The structure of a population can
affect which traits evolve,. Understanding evolutionary game dynamics in structured …

Collective cooperation is essential for many social and biological systems, yet
understanding how it evolves remains a challenge. Previous investigations report that the …