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This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …
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We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out,...
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interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus … Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed to produce surplus, but only two have the power to allocate it among … distributors and receivers. While behavior at the group level is diverse for surplus allocation and amount of cooperation …
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BoS, with high and low payoff inequality. In PD, disclosure markedly hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players …
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hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …
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This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...
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This paper studies the interaction of beliefs, payoff parameters, and the cooperation rate in the infinitely repeated … prisoner's dilemma. We show formally that a player's belief about the probability of cooperation by their opponent moderates … the effect of changes in the payoff parameters on cooperation. If beliefs are high, increasing the gain from unilateral …
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A fundamental question in social sciences is how trust emerges. We provide an answer which relies on the formation of social and economic relationships. We argue that behind trust lies the fact that individuals invest in connections taking into account the potential externalities networks...
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behavior, non-selfish preferences may be evolutionarily successful. -- evolution of preferences ; altruism ; learning ; self …
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