Super-additive cooperation.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 10 01 2023
accepted: 16 01 2024
medline: 22 2 2024
pubmed: 22 2 2024
entrez: 21 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Repeated interactions provide an evolutionary explanation for one-shot human cooperation that is counterintuitive but orthodox

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pubmed: 38383778
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07077-w
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07077-w
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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IM

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Charles Efferson (C)

Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. charles.efferson@unil.ch.

Helen Bernhard (H)

Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Urs Fischbacher (U)

Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Thurgau Institute of Economics, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.

Ernst Fehr (E)

Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. ernst.fehr@econ.uzh.ch.

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