-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …

This paper introduces a two-sided methodological framework for studies on cooperation based on a new game design … decision problem. Decision makers can choose an individual level of cooperation from a given range of possible actions. Within … applying our framework. Palestinians show a substantially higher cooperation level in the positive externality treatment. In …

Sexes, the aggressiveness of hosts leads to more coordination; in the Prisoner's Dilemma, it leads to less cooperation. In …

Social trust has enchanted social scientists due to its importance for both cooperation within societies and economic … performance. This paper provides a novel empirical study of whether external conflict affects trust. The possible ways that … conflict could be related to trust are theoretically validated by two psychology hypotheses on social group behavior. I try to …

solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a …. Experimenters want to learn how much solidarity experimental participants exhibit when this is costly. But from a Catholic …