When individuals share resources, they may have to make decisions that don’t always maximize their benefits. Unfortunately, some people may have selfish attitudes, which can result in unfair situations that reduce the overall benefits for everyone. One alternative solution to this problem is cooperation. In this approach, individuals give up some benefits to benefit the group. This attitude is heavily influenced by the human values of the individuals involved and can impact the decision-making process. This paper examines how an agent’s behaviour in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma game, as provided by game theory, can be influenced by Schwartz’s ten basic values theory. The experiments show that when the agent follows Schwartz’s order of preferences for values, it tends to take cooperative actions. On the other hand, when the agent prioritizes values associated with individualism, it results in low overall benefits.