WHO I AM
What I do
The conflict between cooperation and self-interest is one of the most important conflicts in human decision making.
Self-interest is individually optimal, but may lead to war and destruction; cooperation leads to peaceful, healthy, and ultimately more successful societies, but it requires individuals to pay a cost for the benefit of others.
I combine math models and behavioral experiments to understand how people solve this and related conflicts, with the goal of helping institutions to create more collaborative societies.
Valerio Capraro
Selected Publications
Introduction to Sofic and Hyperlinear groups and Connes’ embedding conjecture
Capraro V, Lupini M. Lectures Notes in Mathematics 2136 (2015).
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A model of human cooperation in social dilemmas
Capraro V. Plos ONE 8, e72427 (2013).
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Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments
Capraro V, Jordan JJ, Rand DG. Scientific Reports 4, 6790 (2014).
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Social setting, intuition, and experience in laboratory experiments interact to shape cooperative decision-making
Capraro V, Cococcioni G. Proc R Soc B 282 (2015).
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Social heuristics and social roles: Intuition favors altruism for women but not for men
Rand DG, Brescoll VL, Everett JAC, Capraro V, Barcelo H. JEP:G 145, 389-396 (2016).
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