endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely … explanation for this surprising result. -- role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner's curse …

- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …

and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 …

- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral … regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U ….S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …

We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is … required. -- trust ; gender ; experiment ; cooperation ; ability ; stereotypes …

find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With endogenous … levels of cooperation. Our results are evaluated against the predictions of social preference models. -- public goods …

and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 …

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …