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It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …-play communication only has a significant impact on cooperation when no intra-play communication is possible. The results suggest that …
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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 …
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We report on an experiment designed to explore whether and how anger affects future levels of cooperation. Participants … that although anger has a lasting negative effect on cooperation, giving voice to it helps to curtail selfishness. …
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Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
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hence competitive pressure is higher. By contrast, levels of cooperation are very similar across areas. This indicates that … scarcity does not hamper cooperation, at least as long as a sub-survival level has not been reached. Our data further reveal a …
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We study the stability properties of organizations in partition function games, describing cooperative situations with externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected graph. Because of the presence of...
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observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …
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Players cooperate in experiments more than game theory would predict. In order to explain this, we introduce the 'returns-based beliefs' approach: the expected returns of a particular strategy in proportion to the total expected returns of all strategies. Using a decision analytic solution...
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communication. Communication substantially increases bargaining efficiency among subjects who cooperated in the Prisoners' dilemma … defected: Compared to the case of mutual cooperation, the cooperators' rate of honest revelation decreases from 64% to 6% and …
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concept of cooperation and explore the extent to which this intervention brings about changes in people's voluntary … contributions to the public good and self-reported emotional responses. Our findings suggest that priming cooperation increases …
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