Social Dilemmas Understanding Human Cooperation

"We have seen a tremendous expansion of studies, both theoretical and empirical, of social dilemmas and related issues such as trust, cooperation, reciprocity, and pro-sociality in the last quarter of a century. This book provides an extensive review of the psychological studies of social dilemmas, discusses how psychological perspectives are related to research in other fields of social and biological sciences, and contributes to the development of a more integrated understanding of humans as a cooperative species. Written in a friendly style for general readership, this book serves as a good textbook for students as well as a resource book for researchers in both psychology and other social science fields." --Toshio Yamagishi, Professor of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan