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 … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more …This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …

-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents? behavior is not only guided by …

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of … method integrating interactive experiments and representative surveys thereby overcoming crucial weaknesses of both … approaches. One of the major advantages of our approach is that it allows for the integration of experiments, which require …

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even …

prevalent at a very young age. However, direct and indirect reciprocity treatments do not increase overall cooperation rates, as …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 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 …

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a virtuous emotional circle that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …

paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …

-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents’ behavior is not only guided by …