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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...
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We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...
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close until ten minutes have passed without a bid. This paper reports an experiment that allows us to examine the effect of …
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Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...
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Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...
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theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be … strengthened if there exist outsiders that gain from cooperative break down. We investigate this in a laboratory experiment … implemented by letting subjects make a positive contribution to a public good if they choose to defect from cooperation, i …
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We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect … reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma …
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Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social … dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct …
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cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human …-to-treat analysis, we demonstrated that randomly allowing people to misrepresent their gender identity information reduced the aggregate …
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Social interactions predominantly take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature explains cooperation … paper provides a causal test of the importance of social preferences for cooperation, varying the composition of …-registered experiments (N = 1,074), we show that groups of prosocial individuals achieve substantially higher levels of cooperation. The …
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