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benefit- fostering unselfish cooperation and norm enforcement within the group-but also whether there is a dark side, in the … form of hostility between groups. Our experiment provides the first evidence free from the confounding effect of self … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …
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decisions involving altruism and cooperation. We collected data with a laboratory experiment where subjects were asked to … incentives foster higher subsequent altruism and cooperation as compared with competitive or individual incentives. By contrast … for the recipient. The effect of incentives on altruism and cooperation was moderated by relative rank in the incentivized …
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interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus … Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed to produce surplus, but only two have the power to allocate it among … distributors and receivers. While behavior at the group level is diverse for surplus allocation and amount of cooperation …
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Social identity has been shown to successfully enhance cooperation and effort in cooperation and coordination games …
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Competition between groups is ubiquitous in social and economic life, and groups are typically not created equal. Here we experimentally investigate the implications of this general observation on the unfolding of symmetric and asymmetric competition between groups that are either homogeneous or...
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In this paper we show experimentally that conditional cooperation, a phenomenon described in the private provision of … determines if they overcome a rival group. This environment allows us to identify new determinants of conditional cooperation. We … observe conditional cooperation in successful groups and in groups where members contribute more than rivals (even if they …
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Using a repeated public goods game, we experimentally examine how apologies support mutual cooperation in groups. In … contribute more. In groups, adhering to apology norms is associated with greater cooperation, especially in the public treatment …
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groups whose members know that they are composed only of 'like-minded' cooperators are able to maintain a higher cooperation … groups of 'like-minded' free riders do not cooperate. Yet, we find a high level of strategic cooperation that eventually … understand the dynamics of cooperation and free riding …
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and stabilize cooperation. Then, the article discusses how, once cooperation is stable, cultural group selection is likely …
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