Ecological Origins of Cross-Societal Variation in Cooperation

Project Information

PUBLICGOOD

Grant agreement ID: 864519

DOI

10.3030/864519

Project closed

EC signature date 24 May 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING VU
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

I will provide a description of all data collected during the project and where that data can be found in an open access public repository

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

The ecological origins of collectivism and individualism.

Author(s): Marco Colnaghi, Fernando P. Santos, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Psychological Review, 2026, ISSN 0033-295X
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000610

Prosocial and punishment behaviors in everyday life

Author(s): Daniel Balliet, Catherine Molho, Simon Columbus, Terence D. Dores Cruz
Published in: Current Opinion in Psychology, Issue 43, 2025, Page(s) 278-283, ISSN 2352-250X
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.015

Power asymmetry destabilizes reciprocal cooperation in social dilemmas

Author(s): Marco Colnaghi, Fernando P. Santos, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, Issue Marco Colnaghi, Fernando P. Santos, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Daniel Balliet, 2026, ISSN 0022-5193
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.02.610740

Partner perceptions during brief online interactions shape partner selection and cooperation

Author(s): Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic, Bernd Dudzik, Hayley Hung, Daniel Balliet
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0318137, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318137

Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society

Author(s): Diego Guevara Beltran, Jessica D. Ayers, Lee Cronk, Daniel P. Balliet, Jeremy Koster, Athena Aktipis
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, Issue 47, 2026, Page(s) 106802, ISSN 1090-5138
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106802

Gender differences in cooperation across 20 societies: a meta-analysis

Author(s): Giuliana Spadaro, Shuxian Jin, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 378, 2026, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0438

Task affordances affect partner preferences

Author(s): Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic, Aria Li, Magnus Bopp, Yingling Li, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Issue 119, 2025, Page(s) 104751, ISSN 0022-1031
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104751

Inferences about interdependence shape cooperation

Author(s): Daniel Balliet, Björn Lindström
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) 583-595, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.03.003

Institutions and cooperation: A meta-analysis of structural features in social dilemmas.

Author(s): Shuxian Jin, Giuliana Spadaro, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Issue 129, 2025, Page(s) 286-312, ISSN 0022-3514
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000474

Psychological adaptations for fitness interdependence underlie cooperation across human ecologies.

Author(s): Kristen Syme, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Psychological Review, Issue 132, 2026, Page(s) 107-129, ISSN 0033-295X
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000509

Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice

Author(s): Shuxian Jin, Simon Columbus, Paul A.M. van Lange, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Issue 111, 2025, Page(s) 104566, ISSN 0022-1031
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104566

Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries

Author(s): Giuliana Spadaro, James H. Liu, Robert Jiqi Zhang, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Social Psychological and Personality Science, Issue 15, 2026, Page(s) 592-602, ISSN 1948-5506
Publisher: Sage Periodicals Press
DOI: 10.1177/19485506231172330

Adaptations to infer fitness interdependence promote the evolution of cooperation

Author(s): Marco Colnaghi, Fernando P. Santos, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Daniel Balliet
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 120, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312242120