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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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scarcer and hence competitive pressure is higher. By contrast, levels of cooperation are very similar across areas. This … indicates that scarcity does not hamper cooperation, at least as long as a subsurvival level has not been exceeded. Our data …
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Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study … of the same type better than cooperative adolescents. Adolescents show lower cooperation levels and a slower adaption of …
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Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study … of the same type better than cooperative adolescents. Adolescents show lower cooperation levels and a slower adaption of …
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cooperation. In between two identical public goods games, participants play a mini dictator game that, depending on the treatment …
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Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding … contributors are excluded but also because high contributors sustain a higher cooperation level under the exclusion institution …
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Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we … between groups in which members can discuss face-to-face to reach a decision and groups in which members communicate via … computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however …
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Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find …
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We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate irrespective of punishment and therefore have a lower demand for a costly punishment institution than groups of like-minded free riders, who are unable to cooperate without...
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post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …
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