Reciprocal cooperation can be studied in the Centipede game, in which two players alternate in choosing between a … investigated cooperation in four Centipede games differing in their payoffs at the game's end (positive versus zero) and payoff … high payoff inequality were found to reduce cooperation significantly. Contrary to previous predictions, combining these …

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …

increase of cooperation, which is here extended to all two-player social dilemmas. In addition, we discuss the role of the …

together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … partners for collaboration, while cooperation problems arise at the investment levels of partners who have already agreed to …. It is mostly found that if cooperation is successful in terms of investment, it is due to subjects being able to monitor …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously … findings show that pledges of commitment alone can increase cooperation and welfare in committed partnerships. The introduction … partnerships fall solely on the individual choosing to break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and welfare. …

stage, nature draws the costs and benefits of cooperation according to a commonly-known distribution. In the second stage …

’s choice. The results show that second mover cooperation is higher when the first mover has little control over their choice … mover cooperation and provide potential explanations for the experimental results. …

Cooperation is widely recognized to be fundamental for the well-balanced development of human societies. Several … different approaches have been proposed to explain the emergence of cooperation in populations of individuals playing the … cooperation for these classes of games. We find the conditions for which these Nash equilibria are asymptotically stable, and we …

cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where … antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment was detrimental to cooperation. The success of punishment in enhancing … cooperation was explained as deterrence of free riders by cooperative strong reciprocators, who were willing to pay the cost of …