Research Highlights – April 2019

As Machiavelli could have told us, winning behavior in business is seldom idealistic.  In fact, new research shows that people who cunningly combine cooperation and egoism are essentially ‘unbeatable.’  Why?  Cooperating with other people makes many things easier.  However, competition is also a characteristic aspect of our society.  In their struggle for contracts and positions, people have to be more successful than their competitors and colleagues.  Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology have developed an e.....