A number of self-beneficial motives can trigger pro-environmental and prosocial behavior of individuals. We focus on … than 800 consumers in Germany. Participants bid on tea and chocolate advertised with prosocial and pro …-to-pay of older and higher income respondents; (2) that the experienced warm glow does not differ between prosocial and pro …

cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where …Experiments using the public goods game have repeatedly shown that in cooperative social environments, punishment makes … antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment was detrimental to cooperation. The success of punishment in enhancing …

Two consistent findings from the experimentally literature on public good games are that cooperation declines over time … and cooperation is lower in countries with weak institutions. These findings, however, are primarily based on experiments … Guyana we found consistent, indeed rising, levels of cooperation over time. The robustness of this result was checked across …

Social Survey (GSS) and the Rosenberg scale for self-reported trust. We find that, in our UK representative sample, the … for other social preferences as measured by the dictator game and the public good game, as well as for a broad range of … nationally representative samples from six other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries (France …

theoretical basis for the evolution of this behavior remains unclear. In this paper, we propose a game-theoretical model that …

for mutual cooperation. This finding suggests that higher survival costs can enhance social welfare by selecting for … the "cost of survival". In the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), a classic model of social interaction, individual payoffs depend … low probability of survival. We derive a rule for the evolutionary stability of cooperation, x/z > T/R, where x represents …

on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is … of conditional cooperation. This problem was highlighted by two previous studies which found that the strategy method … could also detect equivalent levels of cooperation even among those grouped with computerized groupmates, indicative of …

cooperation neither a general tendency towards stable structures nor towards stable spatial structures can be asserted. Rather … regional cooperation structures can be eroded even after a longer period of stability, as well despite continuous support of …