Cooperation is essential to long-term group effectiveness. It is difficult to achieve, however, when the group's and an … individual's goals conflict. Under these circumstances, how does cooperation emerge? One means is through trust, which is an … attitude critical to the formation of cooperation within groups and organizations (Smith, Carroll & Ashford, 1995). Although …

Several studies have highlighted the role of group identity in promoting in-group cooperation. This literature, however …, has reported contrasting results on the systematic occurrence of in-group cooperation when this entails a personal cost … out-group) in-group cooperation across communities with different levels of generalized trust. It makes use of data from …

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 …