We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments … find that cooperation is highest of all in twoperson groups. The findings in the high MPCR condition are consistent with … those from n-person prisoner's dilemma and oligopoly experiments that suggest it is more difficult to sustain cooperation in …

Peer punishment is widely lauded as a decentralized solution to the problem of social cooperation. However … punishment was primarily altruistic, was sensitive to costs, and promoted cooperation. In generalized exchange, peer punishment … was also altruistic and relatively frequent, but did not increase cooperation. While the dense punishment network …

temporary group member's effort but also the efforts of the permanent group members and, ultimately, also cooperation within the …

concept of cooperation and explore the extent to which this intervention brings about changes in people’s voluntary … contributions to the public good and self-reported emotional responses. Our findings suggest that priming cooperation increases …

-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …

-- human cooperation ; punishment ; culture ; experimental public good games …

anonymous, subjects are better at predicting second-stage behavior, and maintain a substantially higher level of cooperation. …