cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring … monitoring, where actions can only be observed with noise, cooperation is stable only when subjects can communicate before every …

cooperation than male students. …

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 …

equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …

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

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 …