We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …

-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation … or people's heterogeneity in preferences makes voluntary cooperation fragile. Universal free riding thus eventually … cooperation ; free riding …

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … pillar is internalised norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …

-- human cooperation ; punishment ; culture ; experimental public good games …

subject pools and highlights the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation within and across …We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross …-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the …

subject pools and highlights the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation within and across …We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross …-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the …

four subject pools. Our results highlight the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation … cooperation. We deploy our framework in one-shot public goods experiments in the US and the UK, and in Morocco and Turkey. We find … that cooperation is higher in the US and UK than in Morocco and Turkey. Our framework shows that this result is driven …

role of social preferences in conditional cooperation. …We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from …