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Congrats on the this exciting study! 🎉New toolkit untangles #Altruism & #Parochialism in human #IntergroupConflict 🌍⚖️
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#BehavioralScience #ConflictResearch #iScience #HumanCooperation #BostonUniversity #UniversityOfVienna
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November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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New Nature paper documents punctuated cooperative decline in a field social dilemma: motivation/effort decay, not learning or strategic defection, drives the sawtooth pattern. Restart effects grow in magnitude but decay in duration. #humancooperation #collectiveaction #behavioraleconomics
Tired of Paying: Why Human Cooperation Slowly Wears Out
A five-year study of group lending in Sierra Leone finds that cooperation doesn’t collapse rationally — it erodes psychologically, and the fix is surprisingly simple but increasingly temporary.
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April 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
cp-iscience.bsky.social
New toolkit untangles #Altruism & #Parochialism in human #IntergroupConflict 🌍⚖️
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#BehavioralScience #ConflictResearch #iScience #HumanCooperation #BostonUniversity #UniversityOfVienna
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
mathiastck.bsky.social
The #IteratedPrisonersDilemma is one of my favorite thought experiments for analyzing repeated behaviors.

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"The iterated prisoner's dilemma is fundamental to some theories of #HumanCooperation and trust."

Cooperation falls apart if players believe the game is ending.
mathiastck.bsky.social MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social · Mar 27
Unfortunately for a lot of cooperation based #IteratedPrisonersDilemma conclusions the "number of rounds must be unknown or infinite."

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If the system is being destroyed it can also destroy cooperation to prevent the collapse.
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May 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
chrissmith9.bsky.social
Survival of the Friendliest is a great book on the origins of human cooperation. So when the so called “Alpha” people start with their social Darwinism and hatred. You can tell them with confidence to fuck right off. #booksky #fightfascism #education #humancooperation #mutualaid
November 17, 2024 at 1:38 PM
safefrankfurt.bsky.social
New publication in @science.org by Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, and Felix Chopra, and Armin Falk on human cooperation and the individual drivers for the benefit for the common good.

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#humancooperation #research #behavioraleconomics
A publication notice for the research article “Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation” by Armin Falk, Teodora Boneva, Peter Andre, and Felix Chopra, published in Science (Vol. 392, 2026). Below the citation, an aerial view shows numerous people spread across a large open plaza. Thin lines connect individuals and small groups, forming a network-like pattern that illustrates social connections and cooperation among strangers.
June 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
mathiastck.bsky.social
The dilemma arises from the fact that while defecting is #rational for each agent, cooperation yields a higher payoff for each.
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The #IteratedPrisonersDilemma is fundamental to some theories of #HumanCooperation and trust.
January 10, 2026 at 9:49 PM
purescience.news
Scientists challenge theory that human eye evolution was driven by cooperation #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #EyeEvolution #HumanCooperation #ScientificChallenge
Scientists challenge theory that human eye evolution was driven by cooperation
A widely popular idea in psychology and evolutionary science suggests that the distinctive look of the human eye—particularly the white area surrounding the iris—evolved to help us communicate cooperatively....
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July 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM