In this working paper we report on two trust games: a BDM-like game which is interpreted through its use of the possibly suggestive words "show up fee," "sends," "tripled," "send back"; and an uninterpreted spatial game that does not use these words suggestive or not. In the spatial game we...

We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in low cost collective protection of their members'...

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...