Several years ago, I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin struggling to come up with an idea for my dissertation on the effects of competition on intrinsic motivation. Much of my ...

The gut microbiome and host are continuously engaged in a negotiation for essential nutrients, and this dynamic interplay fundamentally shapes both health ...

How did cooperative behavior prevail in human evolution? Researchers have challenged two prevailing explanations -- repeated interactions on the one hand or group competition on the other. Instead, ...

Democracy often seems like unfriendly competition, with all its arguing, partisanship, and mean-spirited attack ads. But underneath the rancor, democracy actually depends on a basic infrastructure of ...

Morton Deutsch, eminent psychologist, Columbia University professor, mentor extraordinaire, and one of the founders of the field of conflict resolution, died last March at age 97. Deutsch spent his ...

Part I: Biological perspectives. The evolution of cooperation and altruism -- Competition and conflict in animals -- Animal communication -- Part II: Human social behaviour. Theory of voting -- ...

Even as the United States and its allies work to diversify their supply chains to avoid over-dependence on geopolitical competitors, they are in simultaneous cooperation and competition with one ...

America’s AI ambition benefits from fast-tracked advanced nuclear reactor buildouts—and, crucially, innovation partnerships ...