John Maule - Insights into Cooperation

In an experimental study John, along with co-authors Ozan Isler and Onurcan Yilmaz,  show that Christians are more cooperative toward fellow Christians than atheists and that this is due to them expecting lower levels of cooperation from atheists and that reciprocating this led them to lower their own levels. The study also provides exploratory support for a particular dual-process theory of thinking, the Self-Control account, showing that intuitive thinking based on emotions leads to selfish choices that become more cooperative with deliberation. This finding suggests that interventions designed to increase cooperation between groups should encourage deliberative rather than intuitive thinking.

The article reference and online link are below:
Isler, O., Yilmaz, O. & Maule, A. J. (2021) Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation. Nature Human  Behaviour.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01014-3