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We propose an experimental method whose purpose is to induce selfish behavior in games for a broad class of social preferences. It provides a theoretical framework for testing game theoretical predictions by confronting subjects with a commonly known payoff matrix actually representing their...
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Giving in the dictator game has often been interpreted as evidence of other-regarding preferences. We suspect that giving is determined by subjects’ attempts to appear fair in the eyes of recipients and the experimenter. Therefore, we investigate behavior in the dictator game by using the...
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n this paper we propose a pluralistic and multi-dimensional ap- proach to cooperation. Specifically, we seek to show … that, in certain settings, less unconditional forms of cooperation may be combined with more gratuitous ones. Starting with … the prisoner’s dilemma game, the evolution of cooperation is analyzed in the presence of different strate- gies, which …
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its rival’s willingness to cooperate. We study the prospects for cooperation given the need for the firm to learn the … environment and its rival’s output. We show how profit and cooperation rates are affected by the sizes of both firms, their … willingness to cooperate, and by environmental complexity. In addition, we investigate equilibrium firm size and cooperation rates. …
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its rival’s willingness to cooperate. We study the prospects for cooperation given the need for the firm to learn the … environment and its rival’s output. We show how profit and cooperation rates are affected by the sizes of both firms, their … willingness to cooperate, and by environmental complexity. In addition, we investigate equilibrium firm size and cooperation rates. …
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behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective …-action problems. We test this hypothesis on communal societies for whom mutual cooperation is a matter of survival. We design field …
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societies, the Israeli kibbutz. The facts that kibbutz members have voluntarily chosen their lifestyle of cooperation and … cooperation when paired with anonymous kibbutz members than when paired with city residents. In fact, when paired with city … residents, kibbutz members’ observed levels of cooperation are identical to those displayed by the city residents. Moreover, we …
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behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective … religious and secular Israeli kibbutzim, communal societies for which mutual cooperation is a matter of survival. Our results …
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collective societies, the Israeli kibbutz. The facts that kibbutz members have voluntarily chosen their lifestyle of cooperation … levels of cooperation when paired with anonymous kibbutz members than when paired with city residents. In fact, when paired … with city residents, kibbutz members-observed levels of cooperation are identical to those of the city residents. Moreover …
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cooperation than male students. …
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