ArticleScientific reports2023
Age-dependent changes in intuitive and deliberative cooperation.
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- Are Older Adults More Prosocial Than Younger Adults? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The Gerontologist · 2024Pooled it
- Stable intuition and the rise of deliberative prosociality in childhood.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
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- The effect of time pressure and ego depletion on young children's helping behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Punishment is slower than cooperation or defection in online network games.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Common and distinct equity preferences in children and adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Cooperative behavior in adolescents: a contribution of empathy and emotional regulation?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cooperation is one of the most advantageous strategies to have evolved in small- and large-scale human societies, often considered essential to their success or survival. We investigated how cooperation and the mechanisms influencing it change across the lifespan, by assessing cooperative choices from adolescence to old age (12-79 years, N = 382) forcing participants to decide either intuitively or deliberatively through the use of randomised time constraints. As determinants of these choices, we considered participants' level of altruism, their reciprocity expectations, their optimism, their desire to be socially accepted, and their attitude toward risk. We found that intuitive decision-making favours cooperation, but only from age 20 when a shift occurs: whereas in young adults, intuition favours cooperation, in adolescents it is reflection that favours cooperation. Participants' decisions were shown to be rooted in their expectations about other people's cooperative behaviour and influenced by individuals' level of optimism about their own future, revealing that the journey to the cooperative humans we become is shaped by reciprocity expectations and individual predispositions.
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