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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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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2020
irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is … cooperative groups to avoid wasting resources for an unneeded punishment institution. In uncooperative groups, it helps members to …
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021
irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is … cooperative groups to avoid wasting resources for an unneeded punishment institution. In uncooperative groups, it helps members to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337734
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Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Political Affiliation, and Group Size
Helénsdotter, Ronja - 2019
The main objective of this paper is to strengthen the knowledge about the relationship between cooperation and political affiliation. For this purpose, I carry out an incentivized N-person prisoner's dilemma experiment. I find that left-wing voters cooperate more than right-wing voters in...
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Cooperation and Coordination in Cultures with Age-Based Social Hierarchies
Chao, Matthew; Shin, Euncheol - 2022
Hierarchy plays an integral role in organizational structure and practices, as well as in society more generally. In Confucian-influenced cultures, and especially in South Korea, social hierarchies are often based on age, and age dynamics can therefore influence social decision-making and...
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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere … findings, in particular with regard to punishment behaviour. The chapter concludes with remarks on future research. …
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Partner Selection Supported by Opaque Reputation Promotes Cooperative Behavior
Capraro, Valerio - 2018
Reputation plays a major role in human societies, and it has been proposed as an explanation for the evolution of cooperation. While the majority of previous studies equates reputation with a transparent and complete history of players' past decisions, in real life, reputations are often...
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From Good Institutions to Generous Citizens : Top-Down Incentives to Cooperate Promote Subsequent Prosociality But Not Norm Enforcement
Stagnaro, Michael; Arechar, Antonio; Rand, David G. - 2017
individuals’ prosociality and punishment. In Study 1 (N=707), we found that the quality of institutions enforcing cooperativeness … Game (DG) giving, but had no significant relationship with punishment in a Third-Party Punishment Game (TPPG). In Study 1R …=516), we experimentally manipulated institutional quality in a repeated Public Goods Game with a centralized punishment …
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Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation
Rand, David G.; Peysakhovich, Alexander; Kraft-Todd, … - 2016
Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive underpinnings of cooperative decision-making. Does cooperation require deliberate self-restraint? Or is spontaneous prosociality reined in by calculating self-interest? Here we present a theory of why...
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Cooperation and Decision Time
Evans, Anthony; Rand, David G. - 2018
We review two fundamentally different ways that decision time is related to cooperation. First, studies have experimentally manipulated decision time to understand how cooperation is related to the use of intuition versus deliberation. Current evidence supports the claim that time pressure (and,...
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