social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects’ cooperation and punishment choices, including the … that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be preferred by the … people. Here, we show that efficient peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges quickly if we introduce …

. -- conditional cooperation ; selfish bias ; punishment ; public good experiment ; strategy method …This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate … irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is …

We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate … irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free … riders, who are unable to cooperate without punishment. We also predict that the difference in the demand for punishment is …

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish … inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere …

We explore in an experiment what leads to the breakdown of partnerships. Subjects are assigned a partner and …

institutions one is exposed to “spills over” to subsequent prosociality but not punishment. These findings support a theory of … individuals’ prosociality and punishment. In Study 1 (N=707), we found that the quality of institutions enforcing cooperativeness … Game (DG) giving, but had no significant relationship with punishment in a Third-Party Punishment Game (TPPG). In Study 1R …

large body of research demonstrates the power of “reciprocity” for inducing cooperation: When others know that you have … they think others are also cooperating; and people can develop habits of cooperation that shape their default inclinations …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …