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different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … a large extent. -- field experiment ; cooperation ; social disapproval ; social preference ; competition ; Japan …
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Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...
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We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...
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We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have … conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock contest, and measure its effects upon cooperation using a multi …-level public good game. We demonstrate that conflict increases cooperation within groups, while decreasing cooperation between …
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incentives to switch affiliation and/or location in a dual environment, where potential gains from in-group cooperation for the …
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, fostering unselfish cooperation and norm enforcement within the group, but whether there is also a dark side, in the form of … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …
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during the pandemic than poor ones. COVID-19 thrived on inequalities and lack of cooperation. In this article, we leverage on … cooperation and social relations represents the starting point for better lives, and a peaceful and respectful coexistence with …
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working on projects together) are strongly related to various dimensions of social capital, from beliefs in cooperation to … cooperation and students' involvement in civic life. A two-stage least square strategy provides evidence that teaching practices …
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Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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