interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus … Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed to produce surplus, but only two have the power to allocate it among … distributors and receivers. While behavior at the group level is diverse for surplus allocation and amount of cooperation …

In this paper we show experimentally that conditional cooperation, a phenomenon described in the private provision of … determines if they overcome a rival group. This environment allows us to identify new determinants of conditional cooperation. We … observe conditional cooperation in successful groups and in groups where members contribute more than rivals (even if they …

Evolution of cooperation by reciprocity has been studied using two-player and n-player repeated prisoner’s dilemma … cooperation when less generous, and better at maintaining a long-term cooperation in the presence of rare defectors when more …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias …

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …

The observability of partners' past play is known to theoretically improve cooperation in an infinitely repeated … information per se may not improve cooperation. A structural estimation suggests that a certain percentage of players act …

Social interactions predominantly take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature explains cooperation … paper provides a causal test of the importance of social preferences for cooperation, varying the composition of …-registered experiments (N = 1,074), we show that groups of prosocial individuals achieve substantially higher levels of cooperation. The …