significantly promotes cooperation even absent negative consequences for non-cooperative behavior. We discuss the implications of … our findings for shaping institutional design to promote cooperation. …

Cooperation in real-world dilemmas takes many forms. We introduce a class of two-player games that permits two distinct … cooperation will emerge. …

environments in which they experience more cooperation in comparison with controls? …

’s decisions open to others may enhance cooperation in these situations. But it is still unknown whether people can successfully …. We deal with this question using an experimental laboratory. Our experiment shows that a non-negligible fraction of … all show their identities and successfully achieve cooperation with their partners if a small explicit cost is charged for …

reasons such as group polarization. This paper experimentally compares cooperation behaviors between pairs and individuals in … suggest that the enhanced cooperation behavior of pairs may be driven by (a) the mere fact that they have partners when they … partners in their pairs, and (c) stronger conditional cooperation behavior of pairs to their matched pairs. …

We develop a model relating self-control, risk preferences and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in … social dilemmas. We subject our model to data from an experimental public goods game and a risk experiment, and we measure … cooperation, and the association is weaker for more risk-averse individuals. Free riders differ from other contributor types only …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third … implicated parties are allowed to punish each other, both the cooperation rate and the earnings are lower when the enforcement of …

While folk theorems for dynamic renewable common pool resource games sustain cooperation as an equilibrium, the …

drive cooperation down over time, and it decreases efficiency by almost 50% compared to the benchmark. This pattern is not …