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Promises and Partnership
Charness, Gary; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2006
We examine experimentally the impact of communication on trust and cooperation. Our design admits observation of …
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Microfoundations of social capital
Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2010
We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about … others cooperation. Moreover, we show that the fairness question , a recently proposed alternative to the standard trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344859
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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Intentions Versus Outcomes : Cooperation and Fairness in a Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma with Nature
Ridinger, Garret - 2016
This paper investigates the importance of concerns about intentions and outcomes in a sequential prisoner’s dilemma game with nature. In the game, there is a chance that the first mover’s choice is reversed. This allows the separation of intended actions from the resulting outcomes....
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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods
Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015
How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037089
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Promises, expectations, and social cooperation
Mischkowski, Dorothee; Stone, Rebecca; Stremitzer, Alexander - 2016
-subject vignette design. Our results also shed light on how promising may contribute to the self-reinforcing creation of trust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581987
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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds : an experiment in Xinjiang, China
Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018
We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781684
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Microfoundations of Social Capital
Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2010
We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … internet in Denmark and find that the trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about others … recently proposed alternative to the “trust question”, is also related to cooperation behavior but operates through beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202519
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140