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 … highlight punishments' failures in this regard. These studies ignore punishments' social effects, and particularly its role in …

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more …

's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …

temporary group member's effort but also the efforts of the permanent group members and, ultimately, also cooperation within the …

I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in … human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly …

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more …

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 … highlight punishments' failures in this regard. These studies ignore punishments' social effects, and particularly its role in …