Social life offers innumerable instances in which trust relations involve multiple agents. In an experiment, we study a …

We elicit individual-level peer-punishment types in a cooperation (social dilemma) and a coordination (weakest link …

individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …

We experimentally examine how incentives affect conditional cooperation (i.e., cooperating in response to cooperation … in some games and free ride in others. The rate of conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is … others' payoffs, supporting the underlying role of social preferences in conditional cooperation. Our results suggest that …