cooperation behavior and we provide evidence on the microfoundation of this relation. We run a large-scale public goods experiment … over the internet in Denmark using a design that enables us to disentangle preferences for cooperation from beliefs about … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men … hold more optimistic beliefs about coworkers' cooperativeness than men who lack confidence, and are accordingly …

access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms of cooperation takes place via interpersonal relations, while … followed by a sudden burst, which means that a transition from a cooperative social norm to non-cooperation occurs …

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and …

pillar is internalised norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …