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With the Cooperation Colloquia, we aim to provide a forum for recent interdisciplinary research on cooperation in humans and other animals.
The Cooperation Colloquia are organised by Giuliana Spadaro at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Qinyu Xiao at the University of Vienna, and Simon Columbus at MIT. Please feel free to contact us in case you have any queries.
Upcoming Colloquia
2024-05-03 | Thomas Epper (CNRS / IÉSEG) | The power of three: The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences
2024-05-17 | Heiko Rauhut (University of Zürich)
2024-05-31 | Julia Marshall (Boston College)
2024-06-14 | Daniele Nosenzo (Aarhus University)
Past Colloquia
2024-04-19 | Esther Blanco (University of Innsbruck) | No responses to changes in the benefits from cooperation in one-time public goods
2024-04-05 | Jillian Jordan (Harvard University) | How reputation does (and does not) drive people to punish without looking
2024-03-22 | Zachary H. Garfield (Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique) | The socio-ecology of human leadership and conflict mediation
2024-03-08 | Yuta Kawamura (Osaka Metropolitan University) | Rethinking the roles of reputation, trivial giving, and altruistic punishment
2024-02-23 | Marco Colnaghi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | How interdependence shapes the evolution of cooperation
2024-02-09 | Cailin O’Connor (University of California, Irvine) | Dynamics of inequity
2023-12-01 | Pedro Dal Bó (Brown University) | Coordination and cooperation
2023-11-17 | Joshua Plotkin (University of Pennsylvania) | How to design institutions that promote cooperation
2023-11-03 | Stephen Benard (Indiana University Bloomington) | Forgiveness, revenge, and social status in intergroup conflict
2023-10-20 | Giulia Andrighetto (CNR/Institute for Futures Studies) | Dynamics of social norms under collective risk
2023-10-06 | Luke Glowacki (Boston University) | The evolution of peace
2023-06-09 | Ashley Harrell (Duke University) | Telling on your ties: Information-spreading and cooperation in networked collective action groups
2023-05-12 | Donghyun Danny Choi (Brown University) | Native bias: Overcoming discrimination against immigrants
2023-04-28 | Peter Thisted Dinesen (University College London) | Diverse and disunited? The consequences of immigration for social trust in Western societies
2023-04-14 | Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University) | Culture clash: Incompatible reputation systems and intergroup conflict
2023-03-31 | Carsten de Dreu (Leiden University) | Environmental stress increases out-group aggression and intergroup conflict in humans
2023-03-17 | Junhui Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) | Gossip and reputation-based cooperation: When, why, and how
2023-03-03 | Anne Pisor (Washington State University) | Human sociality is all about flexibility: From parochial altruism to climate change adaptation
2023-02-17 | Christian Hilbe (MPI for Evolutionary Biology) | A brief history of modeling direct and indirect reciprocity
2023-01-27 | Claus Lamm (University of Vienna) | Neural mechanisms of empathy and prosocial behavior (live in Vienna!)
2022-12-02 | Delia Baldassarri (New York University) | Prosociality beyond group boundaries
2022-11-17 | Alessandra Cassar (University of San Francisco) | It makes a village: Allomaternal care and prosociality
2022-11-04 | Kevin McKee (DeepMind) | Social value orientation: From human cooperation to cooperative AI
2022-06-17 | Nichola Raihani (University College London) | Punishment: One tool, many uses
2022-06-03 | Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich) | The dynamics of norm formation and norm decay
2022-05-20 | Angela Dorrough (University of Cologne) | Bribery across borders
2022-05-06 | Sebastian Grüneisen (MPI for Human Development) | Coordinated decision-making in young children
2022-04-22 | Tarek Jaber-Lopez (Université Paris Nanterre) | Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups
2022-04-08 | Pat Barclay (University of Guelph) | Connecting the causes of cooperation
2022-03-25 | Francisco C. Santos (University of Lisbon) | The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity
2022-03-11 | Quqiong He (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics) | Historical rice farming and contemporary cooperative behavior in China
2022-02-25 | Juan-Camilo Cárdenas (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | Social learning from lab-in-the-field experiments
2022-02-11 | Wojtek Przepiorka (Utrecht University) | Moderators of reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: A meta-analytic model selection approach
2021-12-09 | Sarah Mathew (Arizona State University) | The cultural evolution of cooperative norms: evidence from pastoral Kenya
2021-11-26 | Mariana Blanco (Universidad del Rosario) | How to make a criminal
2021-11-12 | Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania) | In science we (should) trust: Expectations and compliance across nine countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021-10-29 | Sergey Gavrilets (University of Tennessee) | Coevolution of actions, personal norms, and beliefs about others in social dilemmas
2021-10-15 | Masaki Yuki (Hokkaido University) | Low relational mobility, fear of sticking out, and concealment of prosocial behaviors
2021-10-01 | Nikos Nikiforakis (NYU Abu Dhabi) | Cooperation under the shadow of inequality
2021-09-17 | Hannes Rusch (Maastricht University) | Angry young men — Protagonists or plotters of conflicts?
2021-09-03 | Toby Handfield (Monash University) | Morality as an evolved signaling device: We need better evidence
2021-06-18 | Eleanor Power (London School of Economics) | When does reputation lie? Dynamic feedbacks between costly signals and social Prominence
2021-06-04 | Shakti Lamba (University of Exeter) | New methods in the study of cooperation
2021-05-21 | Zegni Triki (Stockholm University) | Biological market effects and cooperation in the cleaner fish mutualism
2021-05-07 | Liran Samuni (Harvard University) | Strong social relationships and cooperative exchange in wild chimpanzees
2021-04-23 | Brent Simpson (University of South Carolina) | Radical flanks and public support for protest groups
2021-04-09 | Coren Apicella (University of Pennsylvania) | From selfish beginnings: Tracing the evolutionary origins of cooperation using data from hunter-gatherers
2021-03-26 | Jörg Gross (Leiden University) | The social dilemma of self-reliance
2021-03-12 | Giuliana Spadaro (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | The Cooperation Databank
2021-02-26 | Simon Gächter (University of Nottingham) | Why do people follow rules?