Abstract
Abstract Studying cooperation and public goods can become highly theoretical, myopic, and abstract. It is easy to get bogged down in debating the assumptions of the mathematical models, the artificiality of the behavioral experiments, or the complexities of ethnographic research. In the midst of all the complexity needed to understand why and how humans have become a cooperative species, it is critical that we not lose sight of the urgent need to recognize and address the multiplicity of cooperation dilemmas embedded in many of the issues facing the world today, both locally and globally. Some of the most pressing health, economic, and environmental problems that we are currently confronting are, at their core, cooperation problems. Understanding the psychology of cooperation at the individual level and the repercussions of a person ‘s, country ‘s, or organization ’s failure to cooperate is necessary if we hope to improve our ability to tackle these issues. In this final chapter, we look briefly at a few of the most urgent cooperation problems that we (as a society, a nation, and a world) are grappling with, as well as a couple of examples of cooperation dilemmas that we face in our personal lives. These examples will illustrate how cooperative dilemmas permeate modern life.
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