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We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …
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cooperation than male students …
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Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students...
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of cooperation during war, we find that individual cooperativeness robustly increases with the length of time a person …
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interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …
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Players cooperate in experiments more than game theory would predict. In order to explain this, we introduce the …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans …
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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …
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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 … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …
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