Economic games are well-established experimental paradigms for modeling social decision
making. A large body of literature has pointed to the heterogeneity of behavior within many …

A core element of economic theory is the assumption of stable preferences. We test this
assumption in public goods games by repeatedly eliciting cooperation preferences in a fixed …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

China is one of the major energy-consuming and carbon-emitting countries. Promotion of
efficient energy use is crucial in reducing energy consumption and carbon emission. Under …

We explore the external validity of a common pool resource (CPR) laboratory experiment.
The experimental subjects were artisanal fishers who exploit benthic resources on the coast …

In the standard one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma game, participants often choose to cooperate,
when the optimal strategy is to defect. This puzzling finding has attracted considerable …

Continuous noise caused by mutation is widely present in evolutionary systems.
Considering the noise effects and under the optional participation mechanism, a stochastic …

Sustained cooperative social interactions are key to successful outcomes in many real-world
contexts (eg, climate change and energy conservation). We explore the self-regulatory roles …

Laboratory attempts to identify relationships between personality and cooperative behaviour
in humans have generated inconsistent results. This may partially stem from different …

We document the predictive relevance of the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and the
behavioral approach system (BAS) in a novel domain of societal importance …