We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …

empirically in a large scale online experiment and in the laboratory. In both experiments, the second mover’s lying propensity …

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation … higher cooperation rates and profits than in separated groups (with consistent gains among lower IQ subjects and relatively …

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …

Social interactions predominantly take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature explains cooperation … paper provides a causal test of the importance of social preferences for cooperation, varying the composition of …-registered experiments (N = 1,074), we show that groups of prosocial individuals achieve substantially higher levels of cooperation. The …

-nudge interventions worked. A follow-up experiment reveals the reason for these convincing null-effects: the information norm-nudges did …