"The Collective Benefits of Feeling Good and Letting Go: Positive Emotion and (dis)Inhibition Interact to Predict Cooperative Behavior."

Rand, David G., Gordon Kraft-Todd, and June Gruber. PLOS ONE Vol. 10, No. 1 (2015): e0117426. Data and Code. Download Paper.

"Why We Cooperate."

Jordan, Jillian J., Alexander Peysakhovich, and David G. Rand. In The Moral Brain: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Jean Decety and Thalia Wheatley, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.

"Limit Cycles Sparked by Mutation in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma."

Danielle F. P. Toupo, David G. Rand, and Steven H. Strogatz. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Vol. 24, No. 12 (2014): 1-12. Download Paper.

"Static Network Structure can Stabilize Human Cooperation."

Rand, David G., Martin A. Nowak, James H. Fowler, and Nicholas A. Christakis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 111, No. 48 (2014): 17093-98. Data and Code. Download Paper.

"Time Pressure Increases Cooperation in Competitively Framed Social Dilemmas."

Cone, Jeremy, and David G. Rand. PLOS ONE Vol. 9, No. 12 (2014): e115756. Data and Code. Download Paper.

"Punishment Does Not Promote Cooperation Under Exploration Dynamics When Anti-Social Punishment is Possible."

Hauser, Oliver P., Martin A. Novak, and David G. Rand. Journal of Theoretical Biology Vol. 360, (2014): 163-171.