Coordinated decision making and actions have become the primary solution for the overexploitation of interacting resources within ecosystems. However, the success of coordinated management is highly sensitive to biological, economic, and social conditions. Here, using a game theoretic framework and a 2-species model that considers various biological relationships (competition, predation, and mu...

The “social dilemma” is a problem inherent in forming and maintaining cooperation among selfish individuals, and is of fundamental importance in the biological and social sciences. From the viewpoint of traditional game theory, the existence of the social dilemma necessarily implies degeneration into selfish behavior as the numbers of members in a community increases, unless there exists some e...

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 whom they interact is believed to reinforce the rewards accruing to mutual cooperation while simultaneously excluding defectors. Here we report on a series of human subjects experiments in which groups of 24 partici...

In social interactions, decision makers are often unaware of their interdependence with others, precluding the realization of shared long-term benefits. In an experiment, pairs of participants played an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma under various conditions involving differing levels of interdependence information. Each pair was assigned to one of four conditions: “No-Info” players saw their own ...

Interpersonal relationships can be fragile. The mere perception of opportunistic behavior can lead to a breakdown in cooperation. Once damaged, the question then arises as to whether and how cooperation might be restored. Noncooperative game theory raises serious doubts about the possibilities, although interactional justice and impression management research have shown that verbal explanations...

INTRODUCTION W e are concerned with whether and how cooperation evolves in social worlds characterized by the presence of selfish agents engaged in repeated relations without central authority. This fundamental problem has been the focus of many studies across all the social sciences as well as philosophy, biology, and computer science. Based on the seminal works of John Maynard Smith [1], and ...

Regional cooperation represents a viable alternative to the ongoing process of globalization, in which countries can optimally respond changes external environment through regional integration, while larger market size tends provide better sales opportunities. The purpose this paper is identify common determinants impact economic and trade on convergence economies member states Eurasian Economi...

Cooperation in the matrilineal Minang ethnic group is considered an essential element of their kinship system, especially cooperation with kins from mother's side. With increasing number women migrating to get a better education, this study aims understand how carried out by migrant and realized form cooperation. In-depth interviews were conducted five Yogyakarta, as part exploratory qualitativ...