Which social decisions are intuitive? Which are deliberative? The dual-process approach to human sociality has emerged in the last decades as a vibrant and exciting area of research. Here, I review the existing literature on the cognitive basis of cooperation, altruism, honesty, positive and negative reciprocity, and utilitarianism. For each of these domains, I list a number of open problems that I believe to be crucial to further advance our understanding of the cognitive basis of human sociality. I conclude by making an attempt to introduce a game-theoretical framework URLanize the existing empirical evidence . This framework seems to be a promising starting point, as it turns out to make predictions thatare qualitatively in line with the experimental data in all but two domains: honesty (when lying harms " abstract others " ) and positive reciprocity. I tried to keep the review self-contained, exhaustive, and research-oriented. My hope is that it can contribute to bring further attention to this fascinating area of research .
Which social decisions are intuitive? Which are deliberative? The dual-process approach to human sociality has emerged in the last decades as a vibrant and exciting area of research. Here, I review the existing literature on the cognitive basis of cooperation, altruism, honesty, positive and negative reciprocity, and (act) utilitarianism. I conclude by introducing a game-theoretical framework URLanizes the majority of the empirical regularities . This framework extends Rand and colleagues' Social Heuristics Hypothesis to any one-shot game G. The core assumption of this " General Social Heuristics Hypothesis " is that, under intuition, people play a Nash equilibrium of the "real analogue of G", G^{real .
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seems to be a promising starting point, as it turns out to make predictions thatare qualitatively in line with the experimental data in all but two domains: honesty (when lying harms
extends Rand and colleagues' Social Heuristics Hypothesis to any one-shot game G. The core assumption of this
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General Social Heuristics Hypothesis
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) and positive reciprocity. I tried to keep the review self-contained, exhaustive, and research-oriented. My hope is that it can contribute to bring further attention to this fascinating area of research
is that, under intuition, people play a Nash equilibrium of the "real analogue of G", G^{real