This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

. -- conditional cooperation ; selfish bias ; punishment ; public good experiment ; strategy method …This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and …

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …