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A preference for negative reciprocity is an important part of the human emotional repertoire. We model its role in sustaining cooperative behavior but highlight an intrinsic free-rider problem: the fitness benefits of negative reciprocity are dispersed throughout the entire group, but the...
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Free riding problems can be more severe in multiple-person social dilemmas than in two-person dilemmas, since agents can hide their actions behind the veil of anonymity. In this paper, we use field data on waste sorting to study the effect of visibility in social dilemmas. We compare the sorting...
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This study considers evolutionary games with non-uniformly random matching when interaction occurs in groups of n = 2 individuals using pure strategies from a finite strategy set. In such models, groups with different compositions of individuals generally co-exist and the reproductive success...
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Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
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This paper studies how competition between groups affects cooperation. In the control condition, pairs of subjects play …, cooperation increases by 16 percentage points. Strategies estimation shows a shift from selfish strategies (Always Defect) to …
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This paper investigates the influence of physical attractiveness on cooperative behavior. We survey data from 211 episodes of a television game show and combine it with independent facial attractiveness ratings of the show's contestants. The final of the show represents a simultaneous one-shot...
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a considerable extent. However, cooperation and ‘good’ implementation only coincide under certain conditions. If the … collaborative endeavours are explicitly designed to lead to implementation of a specific and demanding task, cooperation is …, however, perform better than others. Thus, I argue that theories should be developed and tested to indicate when cooperation …
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We present results from a novel experiment on the effect of a policy designed to encourage cooperation in a prisoner …'s dilemma game. We find that the effect of this policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it was chosen democratically …
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higher the levels of cooperation. We compare the behavior from these in finitely repeated games with behavior from finitely … repeated games of the same expected length and we find that there is more cooperation in the in finitely repeated games …
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We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have … little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a … research, longer interactions facilitate cooperation. However, many individuals avoid long-term commitment, with uncooperative …
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