Throughout human history, informal sanctions played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears …

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 …

the role of details of the environment that may alter focal contribution norms in an important way. …

and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice …

dual-processing and the origins of human cooperation. …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of … key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …