a real‐effort laboratory experiment, we cleanly identify the causal effect of an early success in a competition. We …

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 …

In this work, we explore the role of learning dynamics and social norms in human cooperation on networks. We study the … balance between the choice that returns higher payoffs with the choice in agreement with social norms. In our experiment …-positioned at each game iteration. Our results show that the network structure does not affect the dynamics of cooperation, which …