Interdependence describes the mutual control different individuals have over their own and
others' outcomes. Recent research suggests that interdependence is mentally represented …

Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of
cooperation is challenging to explain in a world of self-interested individuals. There is …

Humans operate in groups that are oftentimes nested in multilayered collectives such as
work units within departments and companies, neighborhoods within cities, and regions …

Although uniquely destructive and wasteful, intergroup conflict and warfare are not confined
to humans. They are seen across a range of group-living species, from social insects, fishes …

On the 20th through the 22nd of October 2021, the international symposium on “Creditions—
An interdisciplinary Challenge” took place in the Conference Center of the Volkswagen …

Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the
problem of cooperation through the informal mechanisms of reputation and gossip …

Gossip is believed to be an informal device that alleviates the problem of cooperation in
humans. Communication about previous acts and passing on reputational information could …

Mimicry is an essential strategy for exploiting competitors in competitive co-evolutionary
relationships. Protection against mimicry may, furthermore, be a driving force in human …

The processes of believing integrate external perceptual information from the environment
with internal emotional states and prior experience to generate probabilistic neural …

Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the
maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative …