Cooperation

We study how humans and other great apes coordinate action, manage shared interests, and navigate multi-agent social worlds. This includes research on triadic and group cooperation, partner choice, common-pool resource management, cooperative communication, and the motivational foundations of collaboration. Across this area, developmental research examines how cooperative capacities emerge over ontogeny, cross-cultural research investigates how socioecological experience shapes cooperative behaviour, and comparative research identifies continuities and differences between humans and other great apes. Together, this work helps explain how cooperation underpins collective action and human social complexity.