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ArticleNature2026

Cooperation conflicts with equality when allocating public goods.

Anzhi Sheng, Qi Su, Alex McAvoy, Long Wang, Joshua B Plotkin

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Anzhi ShengDepartment of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6044-707X
Qi SuSchool of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6490-686X
Alex McAvoySchool of Data Science and Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9110-4635
Long WangCenter for Systems and Control, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China. longwang@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5600-8157
Joshua B PlotkinDepartment of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. jplotkin@sas.upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2349-6304

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cooperation is typically seen as the ideal outcome in a social dilemma. Because cooperators are vulnerable to exploitation, much of the literature has focused on mechanisms, such as spatial structure, that support prosocial behaviour and the production of public goods

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Cooperative BehaviorResource AllocationGame TheoryHumansSocial Networking

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