The need for justification is a widely observed social phenomenon and an important part of communication. This paper … examines experimentally how pure justification pressure affects conformity behavior in economic environments. The evidence is … consistent with justification pressure increasing sensitivity to norm deviations. In a one-shot anonymous interaction, compared …

What is the role of intuitive versus deliberative cognitive processing in human cooperation? The Social Heuristics …-maximizing), and that for most people cooperation is typically advantageous due to mechanisms such as repetition, reputation, and …, the SHH predicts that in the context of pure cooperation – where non-cooperation is strictly payoff – maximizing …

embedded in the trust game: 1) an “investment” motive - conditional cooperation is a way to express the expectation of …

While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …

Two separate bodies of work have examined whether culture affects cooperation in economic games and whether cooperative … decision time and cooperation in American versus Indian subjects. We use a series of dynamic social network experiments in … cooperation among both sets of subjects. Our results imply the cultural background of subjects in their real life affects the …

's interaction partners (the “social environment”) on the speed of cooperation has been overlooked. We propose that reciprocal … making 55,968 decisions. We show that reciprocal decisions are consistently faster than non-reciprocal decisions: cooperation … is faster than defection in cooperative environments, while defection is faster than cooperation in non …

Punishees regularly ask for justification. But is justification also effective? To answer this question under … reasons are kept confidential. In the Private treatment, the addressee is only informed about the justification of the … decay in later periods if the justification is only communicated to the addressee. In the remaining two treatments …