Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which … paper reports the results of an experiment investigating inequality aversion and negative emotions as possible determinants …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a "virtuous emotional circle" that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in …

Intelligence affects social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two … initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial …

students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …