The world faces a series of urgent environmental, economic and security challenges, with time ticking down to address them. All this is taking place while companies and countries grapple with ...

Many social interactions involving conflicts of interest can be modeled as simple two-person games where each person, or player, chooses between a prosocial, or cooperating, strategy, and an ...

Humans have a long history of cooperating together, which has helped us survive and thrive for hundreds of thousands of years in places around the world. But we don’t always cooperate well, even when ...

Collaboration and cooperation between colleagues or friends. Problem solving concept. Business strategy and success concept. Community. Association. Agreements. Racial equality. Teamwork concept.

Until now, it was considered certain that people are more likely to cooperate if the benefits from cooperation are higher. A recently published, large-scale study has now called this finding into ...

Susanne Schmeier has not received funding related to this article. Melissa McCracken has not received funding related to this article. Just over half the world’s population shares a river or lake ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom that larger group size reduces cooperation by showing that fluid connections and innate prosocial instincts enable humans to thrive in larger social circles ...

Last april, as reactors at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant were melting down following a lethal earthquake and tsunami, a maintenance worker in his 20s was among those who volunteered to ...

Compromise, within the context of relationships, is troublesome because it implies that someone is giving something up. Cooperation, on the other hand, strengthens the underlying fabric of ...

The major task, which the international community is facing today in the field of water resources, is the transfer of committed obligations into concrete actions that need to be implemented on the ...