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update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …
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This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …
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Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although … punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
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We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …
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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 … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from …
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tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects … 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 …
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Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
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series of experiments, we show that the presence of an intermediary increases public good success and subjects' earnings only …
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