Project description DEENESFRITPL A comprehensive model of behavioural principles of cooperation The emergence of critical problems, such as global warming and the pandemic, requires large scale cooperation. Are people prepared for this? Existing behavioural models of cooperation are insufficient to answer this question because they centre on one narrow aspect of people’s behaviour, while an integrated approach is necessary. The EU-funded PRINCIPLES project will develop and experimentally test a comprehensive model of behavioural principles of cooperation. The project will apply the model to systematically explore behavioural links between previously disjoint behavioural principles developed by social sciences and provide inclusive new behavioural analyses of the most significant models of social problems. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Global warming and Covid19 are two prime examples of problems that require cooperation at a very large scale. A failure to cooperate, that is, to act in one’s self-interest rather than the collective interest, could spell a bleak future for humanity. When are people prepared to play their part in the solution of these fundamental problems? Current behavioural models of cooperation from across the social sciences, including economics, are inadequate for answering this fundamental question, because they typically focus on one narrow aspect of people’s behaviour, but people might be motivated by different factors at the same time. Hence, to make progress, an integrated approach is needed. The major ambition of my interdisciplinary research programme is to achieve synergy by combining insights and methods from economics, sociology, and moral and social psychology into a novel experimentally tested framework thereby making a major step forward in the creation of a unified science of human cooperation. Rule following is the most basic behaviour to achieve large-scale cooperation. I will use it as a first step to develop, and experimentally test a comprehensive model of behavioural principles of cooperation. Second, I will then employ the framework to systematically investigate behavioural links between previously disjointed behavioural principles as developed across the social sciences. I also use the model to provide comprehensive new behavioural analyses of the most important models of social dilemmas. Finally, I will use the new framework in representative samples from major economies around the globe to explain people’s behaviour in relevant large-scale cooperation problems, most importantly caring for the climate, by using incentivised experiments. PRINCIPLES will equip researchers and policy makers across disciplines with behavioural principles, tools and data to study problems of cooperation using an interdisciplinary and experimentally tested framework. Fields of science social sciencessociologysocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmedical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronavirusessocial sciencespsychologysocial psychology Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2020-ADG - ERC ADVANCED GRANT Call for proposal ERC-2020-ADG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant Host institution THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Net EU contribution € 2 496 465,00 Address University Park NG7 2RD Nottingham United Kingdom See on map Region East Midlands (England) Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 2 496 465,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 2 496 465,00 Address University Park NG7 2RD Nottingham See on map Region East Midlands (England) Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 2 496 465,00
