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

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 …

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 …

-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …

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 …

punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … opportunity almost complete cooperation can be achieved and maintained although, under the standard assumptions of rationality and … selfishness, there should be no cooperation at all. We also show that free riding causes strong negative emotions among …

We characterize 'Games of Altruistic Cooperation' as a class of games in which cooperation leaves the individual and … and/or communication support altruistic cooperation to sustain the welfare of future generations. Without punishment or … communication, cooperation is low; communication alone even increases the incidence of zero contributions. However, combining peer …

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …