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 …

literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …

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 …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of … quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect …

tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects … 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 …

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …

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 …

" VCMP to rule out other potential explanations. We use a beliefs-based model, rooted in psychological game theory, to derive …

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