In this paper we measure experienced guilt in a prisoner’s dilemma experiment with pre-play communication. We find that … feelings of guilt only arise in the case of unilateral defection and that they are stronger when players have mutually agreed … to cooperate. We also find that fining unilateral defection reduces feelings of guilt. …

our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …'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 …

We use laboratory experiments to study the causal effects of favorable and unfavorable competitive market experience on … cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral … cooperation for pairs of market-winners, market-losers and mixed pairs and study both the cases where interaction in the social …