can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously formed … findings show that pledges of commitment alone can increase cooperation and welfare in committed partnerships. The introduction … partnerships fall solely on the individual choosing to break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and welfare. …

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously formed … findings showthat pledges of commitment increase cooperation in committed partnerships when costs to dissolve them are shared … break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and instead decrease cooperation. …

, cooperation remains relatively high even in the later periods. Finally, we find that increasing the resistance threshold has a …

What is the role of intuitive versus deliberative cognitive processing in human cooperation? The Social Heuristics …-maximizing), and that for most people cooperation is typically advantageous due to mechanisms such as repetition, reputation, and …, the SHH predicts that in the context of pure cooperation – where non-cooperation is strictly payoff – maximizing …

The observability of partners’ past play is known to theoretically improve cooperation in an infinitely repeated … information per se may not improve cooperation. A structural estimation suggests that a certain percentage of players act …

cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game among Syrian refugees in two host countries, Germany and Jordan. We use a between …-subjects analysis to test our in-group cooperation hypothesis. We find that Syrians are more likely to cooperate when they are … refugees self-report a feeling of relative welcome in the host country, punishment of cooperation norm violations by ingroup or …

Conditional cooperation is usually investigated in experiments where the choices of others are known. In many … perceived likelihood of cooperation in a Prisoner's Dilemma, and whether such information is described unambiguously or learned …

artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We study the determinants and forms of algorithmic cooperation in the … prisoner's dilemma games played by humans in the lab. We find that the same factors that increase human cooperation largely … also determine the cooperation rates of algorithms. However, algorithms tend to play different strategies than humans …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …