We examine the effect of payoff variations on cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma games. We focus on three … impact on cooperation. Temptation directly deters cooperation and indirectly harms cooperation by lowering beliefs about the … opponent's cooperativeness. Efficiency indirectly affects cooperation through beliefs, but the magnitude of the effect is …

mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation … higher cooperation rates and profits than in separated groups (with consistent gains among lower IQ subjects and relatively … evolutionary game theory model, where higher IQ among subjects determines - through better working memory - a lower frequency of …

mediated by differences in cognitive skills. Our design uses a Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma, and we compare rates of cooperation … higher cooperation rates and profits than in separated groups (with consistent gains among lower IQ subjects and relatively … evolutionary game theory model, where higher IQ among subjects determines - through better working memory - a lower frequency of …

this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall … concurrent channels lead to lower levels of cooperation. First, the punishment of low contributors decreases both at the …

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

This paper studies the profile of cooperation emerging in a context in which agents may choose to join one of two … making) in fostering higher levels of cooperation, assessed through higher participation rates to groups. Starting from the … and activating sense-making dynamics are able to support higher cooperation levels, which, however, come at the cost of …

We ask how normative statements are possible within an economic theory framework that recognises the importance of … rules of economic interaction allow the acquisition of gains from cooperation. We suggest to reconstruct any interaction as …

take the form of simultaneous move cooperation games of complete information, where peer pressure translates to incentives … cooperate with others that they are friends with and defect on others that they are enemies with. Also, mutual cooperation with …

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 …