We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along … these two dimensions documents that cooperation and punishment patterns are intuitively aligned for most individuals … engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers …

opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who are similar but have different … long-run losses. Initially similar, cooperation rates for groups with different intelligence levels diverge, declining in … groups of lower intelligence, and increasing to reach almost full cooperation levels in groups of higher intelligence …

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …

artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We study the deter-minants and forms of algorithmic cooperation in the … prisoner’s dilemma games played by humans in the lab. We find that the same factors that increase human cooperation largely … also determine the cooperation rates of algorithms. However, algorithms tend to play different strategies than humans …

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 …

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 …

, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …

online experiment. We observe high levels of cooperation and the typical conditional contribution patterns in a modified …We analyze cooperation within a company setting in order to study the relationship between cooperative attitudes and … public goods game. When linking experiment and company record data, we observe that cooperative attitudes of employees do not …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …