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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

TO THE ECONOMIC ACTION AND FOR COOPERATION. …

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When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation

Houser, Daniel; Xiao, Erte; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2005

People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...

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Cooperation and Punishment

Thomas, Jonathan P.; Evans, Robert - EconWPA - 2000

We show that, in repeated common interest games without discounting, strong `perturbation implies efficiency' results require that the perturbations must include strategies which are `draconian' in the sense that they are prepared to punish to the maximum extent possible. Moreover, there is a...

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Learning in Different Social Contests

Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

This paper aims at analysing the effects of learning on the individual behaviour in an experiment that requires … cooperation and coordination within teams. Using artificial agents, different social contests are created, as training …

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The Role and Evolution of Central Authorities

Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - EconWPA - 1999

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means of direct coordination or the enforcement of pre …

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Social norms and human cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

norms. In recent years, there has been substantial progress, however, on how cooperation norms are enforced. Here we review … insights into the proximate and ultimate forces behind human cooperation. …

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Metabolism of Social System: N-Person Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Analysis In Random Boolean Network

Situngkir, Hokky; Khanafiah, Deni - EconWPA - 2004

Random Boolean Network has been used to find out regulation patterns of genes in organism. This approach is very interesting to use in a game such as N-Person Prisoner’s Dilemma. Here we assume that agent’s action is influenced by input in the form of choices of cooperate or defect she...

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Does It Pay To Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003

behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective …-action problems. We test this hypothesis on communal societies for whom mutual cooperation is a matter of survival. We design field …

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Disposition, History and Contributions in Public Goods Experiments

Gunnthorsdottir, Anna; Houser, Daniel; McCabe, Kevin; … - EconWPA - 2004

to cooperate is revealed by their first period investment in a voluntary contribution experiment, and that grouping …

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Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003

societies, the Israeli kibbutz. The facts that kibbutz members have voluntarily chosen their lifestyle of cooperation and … cooperation when paired with anonymous kibbutz members than when paired with city residents. In fact, when paired with city … residents, kibbutz members’ observed levels of cooperation are identical to those displayed by the city residents. Moreover, we …

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