We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …

; and, as a behavioural indicator of disapproval, punishment. Our findings are that, for a given pattern of contributions …, neither punishment nor emotion depends on the Give versus Take framing that we manipulate. To this extent, they suggest that … the social preferences we observe are robust to framing effects. -- framing effects ; punishment ; emotions ; public goods …

A novel laboratory experiment is used to show that mismatching between task preferences and task assignment undermines …