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via social learning. Using an online social dilemma experiment, we find evidence that participants' contributions were … learning strategies employed within the experiment, but that this cooperative propensity could be reduced through selection …
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The black box method was developed as an "asocial control" to allow for payoff-based learning while eliminating social … participants can unwittingly affect the learning of other participants. Here, we test a solution to this problem in a range of … no significant differences in rates of learning between the original and the computerised black box, therefore either …
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I designed an experiment to study the persistence of the prevailing levels of reasoning across games. Instead of …
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cooperation. We model agents’ learning when they imitate successful players over similar games, but lack any information about the …
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The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...
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affiliation-motivated individuals engaged in game-play. The first model captures learning by motivated agents during strategic …
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Social learning often occurs between groups with different levels of experience. Yet little is known about the ideal … novices learning from experienced, a particular form of probabilistic imitation is selected. Novices should imitate any …
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Initiated by the seminal work of Fehr and Fischbacher (Evolution and Human Behavior (2004)), a large body of research has shown that people often take punitive actions towards norm violators even when they are not directly involved in transactions. This paper shows in an experimental setting...
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voting. Using a laboratory experiment to simulate a data-entry organization, we find that, while autocratic decision …
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revealing of identities. Using a laboratory experiment, we implement a 20% donation share that is dependent on participants …' contributions to a public good. The donation is either costless (because it is financed by the experimenter) or deducted from a team … end of the experiment leads to higher contributions to the public good. Non-parametric statistics indicate that when …
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