formation, the maintenance and the decay of social norms. In particular, our knowledge about how norms affect behavior and how … 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 …

We examine the effect of payoff variations on cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma games. We focus on three … impact on cooperation. Temptation directly deters cooperation and indirectly harms cooperation by lowering beliefs about the … opponent's cooperativeness. Efficiency indirectly affects cooperation through beliefs, but the magnitude of the effect is …

's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material … payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …

Chapter written for the Handbook of Reciprocity, Gift-Giving and Altruism …

reciprocity. Moreover, several theoretical papers have been written showing that the observed phenomena can be explained in a …

This paper surveys recent experimental and field evidence on the impact of concerns for fairness, reciprocity and … altruism on economic decision making. It also reviews some new theoretical attempts to model the observed behavior. …