This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional cooperation is made significantly worse when other players …. -- conditional cooperation ; selfish bias ; punishment ; public good experiment ; strategy method …

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon … cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … games, overall we find much less conditional cooperation. In a control treatment with a less complex design, conditional …

externality. A within-subjects measure of reticence to impose harm does not explain cooperation. But the externality makes … participants more pessimistic. However conditional on their beliefs participants are more, not less cooperative if cooperation …

We investigate experimentally whether the extent of conditional cooperation in public good games depends on the … conditional cooperation. We also find no evidence that the type of game makes a difference to unconditional contributions. The …

This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary … behavior. Moreover, notwithstanding a decline in contributions, conditional cooperation is found to be stable over time …. -- Public goods game ; Real-time protocol ; Information feedback ; Conditional cooperation ; Simulations …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain … based on this data, we show that the decline of cooperation can be driven by the fact that most people have a preference to …

In this paper, we use an experimental setup to classify cooperation types using a sequential prisoner's dilemma and a … one shot sequential public goods game. In these two games, we examine the within subject stability of cooperation …

In economics, politics and society, examples abound where agents can enter partial cooperation schemes, i.e., they can … collude with a subset of agents. Several contributions devoted to specific settings have claimed that such partial cooperation … actually worsens welfare compared to the no-cooperation situation. Our paper assesses this view by highlighting the forces that …