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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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What is the role of intuitive versus deliberative cognitive processing in human cooperation? The Social Heuristics …-maximizing), and that for most people cooperation is typically advantageous due to mechanisms such as repetition, reputation, and …, the SHH predicts that in the context of pure cooperation – where non-cooperation is strictly payoff – maximizing …
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While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …
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Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show...
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We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...
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scarcer and 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 subsurvival level has not been exceeded. Our data …
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Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …
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Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493200
cooperation than male students. …
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games, we find that providing age information significantly increased coordination and cooperation in a Korean participant … cooperation among workers) can vary across cultures. As a counterfactual, we find that providing age information to a US … participant pool yielded 0% effects. Baseline cooperation rates without age information were also higher in the US than in Korea …
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