ArticlePloS one2011
Genetic susceptibility for individual cooperation preferences: the role of monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) in the voluntary provision of public goods.
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- Improved approaches to genotyping MAOA-uVNTR polymorphisms with novel allele discovery.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Sociodemographic, Clinical and Genetic Correlates of Aggressive and Auto-Aggressive Behaviour in Alcohol-Dependent Individuals - Preliminary Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- No association between genetic variants in MAOA, OXTR, and AVPR1a and cooperative strategies.PloS one · 2020Article
- MAOA-VNTR genotype affects structural and functional connectivity in distributed brain networks.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- MAOA variants differ in oscillatory EEG & ECG activities in response to aggression-inducing stimuli.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Association of MAOA genetic variants and resilience with psychosocial stress: A longitudinal study of Syrian refugees.PloS one · 2019Article
- Interacting effect of MAOA genotype and maternal prenatal smoking on aggressive behavior in young adulthood.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2016Article
- Men increase contributions to a public good when under sexual competition.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Conditional cooperation and confusion in public-goods experiments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) genotype predicts greater aggression through impulsive reactivity to negative affect.Behavioural brain research · 2015Article
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Abstract
In the context of social dilemmas, previous research has shown that human cooperation is mainly based on the social norm of conditional cooperation. While in most cases individuals behave according to such a norm, deviant behavior is no exception. Recent research further suggests that heterogeneity in social behavior might be associated with varying genetic predispositions. In this study, we investigated the relationship between individuals' behavior in a public goods experiment and the promoter-region functional repeat polymorphism in the monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA). In a dynamic setting of increasing information about others' contributions, we analyzed differences in two main components of conditional cooperation, namely the players' own contribution and their beliefs regarding the contribution of other players. We showed that there is a significant association between individuals' behavior in a repeated public goods game and MAOA. Our results suggest that male carriers of the low activity alleles cooperate significantly less than those carrying the high activity alleles given a situation where subjects had to rely on their innate beliefs about others' contributions. With increasing information about the others' cooperativeness, the genetic effect diminishes. Furthermore, significant opposing effects for female subjects carrying two low activity alleles were observed.
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