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large body of research demonstrates the power of “reciprocity” for inducing cooperation: When others know that you have … they think others are also cooperating; and people can develop habits of cooperation that shape their default inclinations …
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The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social … Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with … different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. We find strong evidence for the presence of …
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In a world in which many pressing global issues require large scale cooperation, understanding the group size effect on … realistic scenario in which the natural output limits of the public good imply that the benefit of cooperation increases fast … for early contributions and then decelerates. We report on a large lab experiment providing evidence that, in this case …
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, little is known about the effect of group size on cooperation. Does larger group size favour or prevent cooperation? We …
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This paper presents the results of a threshold public goods game experiment with heterogeneous players. The experiment …
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debate since the seminal works on cooperation in the 1960s. Half a century later, scholars have yet to reach a consensus …, with some arguing that cooperation is harder in larger groups, while others that cooperation is easier in larger groups …, and yet others that cooperation attains its maximum in intermediate size groups. Here we add to this field of work by …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …
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