DANIEL BALLIET
Role:
Scientific Advisor
Institution:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Daniel Balliet’s research focuses on understanding human cooperation. He uses experiments, field studies, and meta-analysis to test evolutionary and psychological theories of cooperation. His work addresses issues related to (a) how people think about their interdependence in social interactions, (b) how people condition their cooperation to acquire direct and indirect benefits, and (c) understanding cross-societal variation in cooperation. His work on these topics has been published in top journals including Psychological Bulletin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Evolution and Human Behavior. He founded the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab in 2015, and is the recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant. He is currently developing a multidisciplinary, open access databank that contains the entire history of research on human cooperation that will empower researchers to conduct their own meta-analyses of this literature. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Experimental and Applied Psychology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.