We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory … that communication increases the overall level of cooperation in our experiments with double-blind payoff procedures …. However, we also find no evidence that communication impacts cooperation in our experiments with single-blind payoff …

Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we … computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however …, we only find a small and temporary effect of identification, irrespective of the type of communication. The reason for …

during the early stages of matches is typically superseded by non-cooperation during the latter stages. The propensity for …

material payoff. Cooperative behavior when non-cooperation is a dominant strategy (with respect to the material payoffs) is … particularly puzzling. Here we propose a novel approach to explain cooperation, assuming what Halpern and Pass (2013) call …

Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …