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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Björn; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
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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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Björn; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
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 sub-survival level has not been reached. Our data further reveal a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397170
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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Björn; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
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 sub-survival level has not been reached. Our data further reveal a … "falling behind" is particularly salient. -- competition ; natural resource scarcity ; antisocial behaviour ; cooperation …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900728
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Hierarchical Invasion of Cooperation in Complex Networks
Vilone, Daniele - 2018
The emergence and survival of cooperation is one of the hardest problems still open in science. Several factors such as … to explain the counter-intuitive prevalence of cooperation in natural and social systems. The characteristics of the … interaction networks have been also signaled as an element favoring the persistence of cooperators. Here we consider the invasion …
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An experiment on cooperation in a CPR game with a disapproval option
Yao, Koffi Serge William - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-14
This paper studies the standard version of the approval mechanism with two players in a common pool resource (CPR) extraction game. In the case of disapproval, the Nash extraction level is implemented. The paper investigates, experimentally, the extent to which the Nash threat leads to...
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Cooperative Strategic Games — Expanded Version
Kohlberg, Elon; Neyman, Abraham - 2021
The value is a solution concept for n-person strategic games, developed by Nash, Shapley, and Harsanyi. The value provides an a priori evaluation of the economic worth of the position of each player, reflecting the players' strategic possibilities, including their ability to make threats against...
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Cooperation and Coordination in Cultures with Age-Based Social Hierarchies
Chao, Matthew; Shin, Euncheol - 2022
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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Stable organizations with externalities
Currarini, Sergio - 2002
We study the stability properties of organizations in partition function games, describing cooperative situations with externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected graph. Because of the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597403
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Negotiating to avoid "gradual" versus "dangerous" climate change : an experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...
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