An experimental paradigm is proposed for investigating interpersonal conflicts under
conditions of intergroup competition. The paradigm constitutes an n-person game with …

Eighty groups of subjects participated in a social dilemma game, where two groups
competed with each other for the provision of a binary public good. Subjects were allowed to …

Thirty‐two groups of three subjects each participated once in an intergroup public goods
game (IPG) in which two groups compete for the provision of step‐level public goods. Half of …

In a public-goods game, a variant of the social dilemma, 126 subjects made choices. In an
attempt to better represent real-world communication possibilities, two conditions were …

Twelve groups of 5 players each participated in a multiple-trial social dilemma game in
which each player, i, receives a possibly different monetary endowment. ei, and then …

Two experiments with 114 male undergraduates studied intergroup competition as a
structural solution to social dilemmas. In Exp 1, Ss participated in a one-shot" give-some" …

1 10 WESTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL the voluntary behavior of individuals who share a
public good generate, after some sequence of trial-and-error teaching-and-learning periods …

Four-person groups played repeated trials of an n-Person Prisoner's Dilemma game under
two information conditions. In one condition, each player's choice was made known to the …

Free riding is a paramount consideration in intergroup conflicts because the benefits
associated with such conflicts are public goods with respect to the members of a competing …

Forty-eight groups participated once in an intergroup conflict in which two groups of equal or
unequal size competed for the provision of step-level (binary) public goods. The study …