When lone wolf defectors undermine the power of the opt-out default

• Main Authors: Ferguson, Eamonn, Shichman, Ruslan, Tan, Jonathan H. W.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Evolution; Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146106
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

High levels of cooperation are a central feature of human society, and conditional cooperation has been proposed as one proximal mechanism to support this. The counterforce of free-riding can, however, undermine cooperation and as such a number of external mechanisms have been proposed to ameliorate...