Rethinking the Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Cooperation Wins

Summary: Researchers demonstrated that robust cooperation emerges spontaneously without requiring advanced cognition or elaborate social rules. By using evolutionary simulations and populations of artificial intelligence agents, the researchers proved that…

Preconception Maternal Trauma Doubles Schizophrenia Risk

Summary: A new study demonstrated that women who endured Nazi persecution as young girls passed a significantly elevated risk of psychiatric illness to their children born decades after World War…

Comforting Others Is a Cultural Trait, Not a Universal Instinct

Summary: When a loved one is visually distressed or upset, modern psychological paradigms assume that the universal human instinct is to comfort them, to actively step in and alleviate their…