opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who are similar but have different … long-run losses. Initially similar, cooperation rates for groups with different intelligence levels diverge, declining in … groups of lower intelligence, and increasing to reach almost full cooperation levels in groups of higher intelligence …

A large literature in behavioral economics has emphasized in the last decades the role of individual differences in … role of attention and working memory, and show that social interactions among heterogeneous groups are likely to be … mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation …

A large literature in behavioral economics has emphasized in the last decades the role of individual differences in … role of attention and working memory, and show that social interactions among heterogeneous groups are likely to be … mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation …

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …

BoS, with high and low payoff inequality. In PD, disclosure markedly hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players …

We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA …. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards …