Evolution, Cooperation and Conflict
A special issue of Games (ISSN 2073-4336). This special issue belongs to the section "Cooperative Game Theory and Bargaining".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 99
Special Issue Editor
Interests: public economics and political economy; contests and conflicts; applied game theory (repeated games, evolutionary games, etc.); international trade and the environment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the remarkable features of human behavior is the ability to cooperate with others. Numerous experimental studies carried out over the last few decades have shown that agents behave much more cooperatively in collective actions and public-interest projects than the homo economics paradigm would predict. The result has been an equally abundant literature in the field of behavioral economics. Another fundamental characteristic of the human species is that, since the distant hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic era, it has lived in groups, sometimes giving rise to violent inter-group conflict. Yet, biologists have long recognized, at least since Darwin (1871), that competition and sometimes violent conflicts between groups can be powerful vectors in the evolution of human cooperation and intra-group solidarity. More recently, the development of evolutionary game theory has enabled scholars to analyze more systematically how kinship can lead to altruistic human behavior within groups in war contexts. The question of how genetically unrelated individuals cooperate to a greater or lesser extent within social and cultural groups, and in a context of competition or even conflict between these same groups, certainly deserves more attention from social scientists. The aim of this Special Issue is therefore to bring together theoretical, applied, and experimental articles that provide insight into the underlying and even evolutionary causes of cooperative versus conflictual human behavior.
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Cheikbossian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- game theory
- evolutionary game theory
- behavioral game theory
- behavioral economics
- other-regarding preferences
- social dilemma
- collective action
- evolution of cooperation
- evolution of preferences
- social groups
- cultural groups
- group conflicts
- parochial altruism
- contest games
- kin selection
- group selection
- online experiments
- laboratory experiments
- field experiments
