We examine how conditional cooperation is related to the material payoffs in a Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma experiment … the material loss to the first-mover when the second-mover defects in response to cooperation. We find that few second …

A growing body of literature in experimental economics examines how cognitive ability affects cooperation in social … different continuation probability under two conditions: whether cooperation can be sustained as risk dominance or not. We asked … that participants with greater cognitive abilities cooperated more (less) when cooperation could (not) be sustained as risk …

fixed. The data shows that an increase in local physical distance decreases willingness to donate. A laboratory experiment …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish … cooperation. We find that the possibility of being punished increases the strength of conditional cooperation. At the same time …

. We interpret subjects behaviour in terms of conditional cooperation which is characterized by both future-oriented and …

simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation … hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas …

We study experimentally a two-stage compensation mechanism for promoting cooperation in prisoner's dilemma games. In … asymmetric prisoner's dilemma games we consider, all payment pairs consistent with mutual cooperation in subgame …-perfect equilibrium transform these prisoner's dilemma games into coordination games, with both mutual cooperation and mutual defection as …

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 …

motivation for cooperation. In the absence of rewards, social cohesion is used to motivate cooperation. A repeated Prisoner … is the only motivation for cooperation in the face of a rational decision to never cooperate. Panel data from this … experiment is analyzed to determine the impact of group structure and individual and group characteristics on cooperative …

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …