Research suggests cooperative behaviour is not instinctive, but learned
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 06:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Cooperative behaviour is not an instinctive impulse or deliberate choice, but a learning process. Researchers of CWI and LUISS Guido Carli in Rome showed in an experiment that people living in a low-trust society intuitively choose non-cooperation in games. However, after playing several times their intuitive choices become more cooperative. The results are published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday 8 July.