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the commons games, and determine the effect of assortativity on the emergence and stability of cooperation. …Cooperation in social dilemmas plays a pivotal role in the formation of systems at all levels of complexity, from … stability of cooperation pose an evolutionary conundrum, since cooperation, though beneficial to others, is costly to the …
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Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents … via social learning. Using an online social dilemma experiment, we find evidence that participants' contributions were … evidence for lower cooperation (i) when exposed to social information about peer cooperation levels than without such …
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from one continuation probability to the other. When switching from large to small, transient higher levels of cooperation … are observed in the early games of the small continuation set. Conversely, when switching from small to large, cooperation … probabilities. These asymmetries suggest a bias in favor of cooperation. Finally, we examine the link between altruism and RPD play …
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can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …
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This paper studies a game of strategic experimentation in which the players have access to two-armed bandits where the risky arm distributes lumpsum payoffs according to a Poisson process with unknown intensity. Because of free-riding, there is an inefficiently low level of experimentation in...
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This paper studies a game of strategic experimentation with two-armed bandits whose risky arm might yield a payoff only after some exponentially distributed random time. Because of free-riding, there is an inefficiently low level of experimentation in any equilibrium where the players use...
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