Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game

• Main Authors: TAN KAI LIN, LYNN, LI, Norman P., TAN, Kenneth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Population density; Resource scarcity; Socio-economic status; Cooperation; Dictator game; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4064; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5322/viewcontent/Cash_crowds_cooperation_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The adaptive benefits of cooperation among humans have been widely studied. However, is being cooperative always adaptive across various combinations of ecological conditions? Existing work has focused on cultural, inter-, and intra-individual predictors of cooperation yet there is a lack of researc...