Cooperation is crucial for the success of social interactions. Given its importance, humans should readily be able to use available cues to predict how likely others are to cooperate. Here, we review the empirical literature on how accurate such predictions are. To this end, we distinguish between three classes of cues: behavioral (including past decisions), personal (including gender, attractiveness, and group membership) and situational (including the benefits to cooperation and the ability to communicate with each other). We discuss (i) how each cue correlates with future cooperative decisions and (ii) whether people correctly anticipate each cue's predictive value. We find that people are fairly accurate in interpreting behavioral and situational cues. However, they often misperceive the value of personal cues.

合作对于社交互动的成功至关重要。鉴于其重要性，人类应该很容易能够使用可用的线索来预测其他人合作的可能性。在这里，我们回顾了关于这种预测有多准确的经验文献。为此，我们区分了三类线索：行为（包括过去的决定）、个人（包括性别、吸引力和团体成员）和情境（包括合作的好处和相互沟通的能力）。我们讨论（i）每个提示如何与未来的合作决策相关，以及（ii）人们是否正确预测每个提示的预测值。我们发现人们在解释行为和情境线索方面相当准确。然而，他们经常误解个人暗示的价值。