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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 …
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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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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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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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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-thefield experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...
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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 …
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cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce … cooperation regimes. This paper uses an anthropological measure of the tightness of historical kinship systems to study the … structure of cooperation patterns and enforcement devices across historical ethnicities, contemporary countries, ethnicities …
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of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …
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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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A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation … show that the effect of cooperation is strongly associated with political affiliation, with Democrats attaching … significantly more importance to cooperation as a source of moral obligation than Republicans. Our findings shed light on the …
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