behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective … religious and secular Israeli kibbutzim, communal societies for which mutual cooperation is a matter of survival. Our results …

collective societies, the Israeli kibbutz. The facts that kibbutz members have voluntarily chosen their lifestyle of cooperation … levels of 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 of the city residents. Moreover …

-governed and externally imposed rules. In general, there is widespread agreement that cooperation can happen and be chosen by … of layers of information that the individuals might be using to decide over their level of cooperation. The layers range …

cooperation. Instead, other elements related to social norms and subjective valuation of the benefits and costs of the regulations …

group cooperation. It reports a series of experiments in the field where subjects are actual commons users. Household data … similar experiments. Participants-wealth and inequality reduced cooperation when groups were allowed to have face …-toface communication between rounds. There are implications for a greater awareness of nonpayoff asymmetries affecting cooperation in …

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to …

reinforcement learning, conditional cooperation, inertia, preference for consistency, and limited attention. Our findings point to a …

We conduct experiments in urban slums to measure trust and cooperation and to see how behavior varies with demographic …