-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 …

solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a …. Experimenters want to learn how much solidarity experimental participants exhibit when this is costly. But from a Catholic …

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …

The article suggests a new explanation for cooperation in large, unstructured societies that avoids the restrictions … for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm … of the social norm and two parameters measuring the cost of cooperation into relation with each other. …

goods provision - the quick emergence of a widely accepted social cooperation norm that demands high contributions but - in … consensus as well as the high cooperation demands required by the norm break down. However, when peer punishment is possible … cooperation and welfare - the opportunity to form a social norm unambiguously causes high public good contributions and group …

reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …