This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, compared with the case when the implicated parties are allowed to punish each other …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is a third party independent … of the implicated parties who propose the punishment. In a prisoner's dilemma experiment, we find an independent third … implicated parties are allowed to punish each other, both the cooperation rate and the earnings are lower when the enforcement of …

report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

the problem of commitment within the scope of pro-sociality and cooperation, and examines two mechanisms that enable …

manipulate social proximity of the participants and efficiency of cooperation. We show that higher efficiency of cooperation has … a significant positive impact on the cooperation rate in the game, while closer social proximity does not significantly …

Interventions to increase cooperation in social dilemmas depend on understanding decision makers' motivations for … cooperation or defection. We examined these in five real-world social dilemmas: situations where private interests are at odds …-reported cooperation is weakly but positively correlated across these dilemmas. Cooperation in each dilemma correlates fairly strongly with …

and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice …