Unravelling the many facets of human cooperation in an experimental study
Rostovtseva, V. V., Puurtinen, M., Méndez Salinas, E., Cox, R. F. A., Groothuis, A. G.G., Butovskaya, M. L., & Weissing, F. J. (2023). Unravelling the many facets of human cooperation in an experimental study. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 19573. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46944-w
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Hyvinvoinnin tutkimuksen yhteisöResurssiviisausyhteisöEkologia ja evoluutiobiologiaSchool of WellbeingSchool of Resource WisdomEcology and Evolutionary BiologyTekijänoikeudet
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Humans readily cooperate, even with strangers and without prospects of reciprocation. Despite thousands of studies, this finding is not well understood. Most studies focussed on a single aspect of cooperation and were conducted under anonymous conditions. However, cooperation is a multi-faceted phenomenon, involving generosity, readiness to share, fairness, trust, trustworthiness, and willingness to take cooperative risks. Here, we report findings of an experiment where subjects had to make decisions in ten situations representing different aspects of cooperation, both under anonymous and ‘personalised’ conditions. In an anonymous setting, we found considerable individual variation in each decision situation, while individuals were consistent both within and across situations. Prosocial tendencies such as generosity, trust, and trustworthiness were positively correlated, constituting a ‘cooperativeness syndrome’, but the tendency to punish non-cooperative individuals is not part of this syndrome. In a personalised setting, information on the appearance of the interaction partner systematically affected cooperation-related behaviour. Subjects were more cooperative toward interaction partners whose facial photographs were judged ‘generous’, ‘trustworthy’, ‘not greedy’, ‘happy’, ‘attractive’, and ‘not angry’ by a separate panel. However, individuals eliciting more cooperation were not more cooperative themselves in our experiment. Our study shows that a multi-faceted approach can reveal general behavioural tendencies underlying cooperation, but it also uncovers new puzzling features of human cooperation.
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The experiment was conducted with the support of the Dr. J.L. Dobberke Foundation, and the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme EMA2 Aurora II (2013–2021); the data analysis and manuscript preparation were supported by the grant 075-15-2022-328 of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (on behalf of VVR, MLB). FJW acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant No. 789240). ...Lisenssi
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