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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...
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Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …
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cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral … cooperation for pairs of market-winners, market-losers and mixed pairs and study both the cases where interaction in the social … experience has adverse effects on the efficiency of cooperation on both market-winner and market-loser pairs. In market …
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Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct …
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in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …
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We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect … reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma …
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cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … cooperation level by approximately 12-13 percentage points. Not only that the average catfisher was substantially more likely to …-term opportunities to misrepresent one’s identity to others can potentially be extremely harmful to later human cooperation and the …
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We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...
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theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be … implemented by letting subjects make a positive contribution to a public good if they choose to defect from cooperation, i ….e. cooperation is collusive since the gains are at the expense of the public. We find that this negative externality increases …
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