Cultural Differences in Prisoners’ Dilemma Game Experiments : Evidence from a Meta-Analysis

This study examines the effect of cultural norms on cooperative behavior in the repeated prisoner's dilemma game. 111 treatments are collected from 45 experimental studies comprising more than 6000 participants and conducted in 13 different countries. The findings suggest that there is no significant difference in cooperative behavior between individualistic and collectivistic countries when cultural norms are measured at the country level. Rather, cooperative behavior is affected mainly by methodological factors of the experiment