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Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013

We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one’s own influence on...

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Brothers in Arms: Cooperation in Defence

Hugh-Jones, David; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling …

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Secret Santa : anonymity, signaling, and conditional cooperation

Hugh-Jones, David; Reinstein, David - 2009

anonymous, subjects are better at predicting second-stage behavior, and maintain a substantially higher level of cooperation …

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Unravelling conditional cooperation : reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … games, overall we find much less conditional cooperation. In a control treatment with a less complex design, conditional …

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Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntary contribution mechanism

Levati, M. Vittoria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009

This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary … behavior. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time …. -- Public goods game ; Real-time protocol ; Information feedback ; Conditional cooperation ; Simulations …

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On the relationship between social distance and threat

Buba, Astrid C.; Hoog, Natascha de - 2009

We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat was imposed within a 2x2 between subjects design, with N=163 students reading a criticising comment about their ingroup assigned to originate from one of two possible outgroups....

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Group reciprocity

Hugh-Jones, David; Leroch, Martin A. - 2010

People exhibit group reciprocity when they retaliate, not against the person who harmed them, but against somebody else in that person's group. Group reciprocity may be a key motivation behind intergroup conflict. We investigated group reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. After a group...

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More than words : communication in intergroup conflicts

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010

Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies the problem of collective action. We...

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Rules (of bidding) to generate equal stated profits : an axiomatic approach

Güth, Werner - 2010

Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits without enforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking and rather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it. Our axiomatic approach is based on envy-free net trades according to bids which, together with the...

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Bargaining and negotiations : what should experimentalists explore more thoroughly?

Güth, Werner - 2011

approach to bargaining and cooperation and the parallel experimental studies of bargaining and negotiation. When arguing what …

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