Payoff-based learning explains the decline in cooperation in public goods games.

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Published in Proc Biol Sci on February 22, 2015

Authors

Maxwell N Burton-Chellew1, Heinrich H Nax2, Stuart A West3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK Magdalen College, Oxford OX1 4AU, UK Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK max.burton-chellew@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
2: Department of Social Sciences-SOMS, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 37, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
3: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK Magdalen College, Oxford OX1 4AU, UK.

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