simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation … hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas …

competition (lottery contest) and one that encourages cooperation (public good game). We find that simultaneous participation in … strategic uncertainty and path-dependence across games. Our design allows us to compare preferences for cooperation and …

I show how improper conditioning of beliefs can lead to under-contribution in public goods environments with …, despite the absence of free-riding incentives. In a laboratory experiment, subjects indeed under-contribute relative to …

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. …

employ feedback or a bias, it may instead turn out as a viable and successful procedure. This result is connected to the …

This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single …

We present an experiment for the study of learning in a complex task which requires both memorisation and the ability … to process several pieces of information. The outcome of an action, for which immediate feedback is given, depends on the …. These theories are modified after feedback, however mistaken answers are repeated and correct answers abandoned. During the …