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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the emergence of cooperative equilibria from passing and shooting
Askitas, Nikos - 2014
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...
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The effect of kinship on intergenerational cooperation : a lab experiment with three generations
Molina, José Alberto; Ferrer, Alfredo; Gimenez-Nadal, … - 2016
In this paper, we analyze how kinship among family members affects intergenerational cooperation in a public good game. 165 individuals from 55 families, comprising three generations (youths, parents, and grandparents), play a public good game in three different treatments: one in which three...
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550258
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Negotiating cooperation under uncertainty : communication in noisy, indefinitely repeated interactions
Dvorak, Fabian; Fehrler, Sebastian - 2018
Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925584
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Sleep restriction increases coordination failure
Castillo, Marco; Dickinson, David L. - 2020
When group outcomes depend on minimal effort (e.g., disease containment, work teams, or indigenous hunt success), a classic coordination problem exists. Using a well-established paradigm, we examine how a common cognitive state (insufficient sleep) impacts coordination outcomes. Our data...
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Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation
Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...
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Telling the truth may not pay off : an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian (contributor); Dwenger, Nadja (contributor) - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
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Efficiency gains from team-based coordination : large-scale experimental evidence
Feri, Francesco (contributor); Irlenbusch, Bernd (contributor) - 2008
The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760231
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Identity, cooperation, and punishment
McLeish, Kendra N. (contributor);  … - 2007
"Among economists, there is increased recognition of the role individuals' identities play in decision-making. In this paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find that negative out-group opinion (acting as an...
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