Social Dilemmas: The Psychology of Human Cooperation

by Paul A.M. Van Lange, Daniel P. Balliet, Mark Van Vugt, et al.

Book Overview

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish people who violate norms and undermine collective interests?

This book is inspired by the fact that social dilemmas, defined in terms of conflicts between (often short-term) self-interest and (often longer-term) collective interest, are omnipresent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190276967
• ISBN13: 9780190276966
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"