tensions exist between the two ethnic groups. We conduct an incentivized laboratory-style decision-making experiment in which … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … that communication enhances inter-ethnic cooperation significantly. We also find that Uyghur and Han subjects behave …

on cooperative behavior. In a survey experiment with a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 1,828), we … mode or were induced to rely either on emotion or reason. Cooperation was measured across a series of commonly used and … that average cooperation rates increased when emotions were induced rather than reason. At the trait level, our results …

% higher first stage effort than random matching. In line with the theory the latter result is more pronounced when the task … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …

Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed …

-of-war. The results show notable deviations of behavior from theory. In the first battle of the tug-of-war, subjects exert fewer …

-group cooperation and is implicated in a plethora of politically-significant behaviors. We report experimental evidence about the impact … is that low social distance facilitates collective action leading to greater cooperation and greater conflict. Our …

This study uses a controlled laboratory experiment to analyze the effects of conflict on economic growth and …

a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …