Conditional cooperation: Review and refinement

C Thöni, S Volk - Economics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Fischbacher et al.(2001), henceforth FGF, introduced an experimental design to
measure conditional cooperation in public goods games. We collected data from 17 …

Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons

S Gächter, F Kölle, S Quercia - Nature human behaviour, 2017 - nature.com
Social cooperation often requires collectively beneficial but individually costly restraint to
maintain a public good,,–, or it needs costly generosity to create one,. Status quo effects …

Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.

G Spadaro, C Graf, S Jin, S Arai, Y Inoue… - Journal of Personality …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

A comment on framing effects in linear public good games

E Cartwright - Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2016 - Springer
A number of recent papers have looked at framing effects in linear public good games. In
this comment, I argue that, within this literature, the distinction between give-take and …

[HTML][HTML] Pro-environmental behavior as a signal of cooperativeness: Evidence from a social dilemma experiment

S Vesely, CA Klöckner, C Brick - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Pro-environmental behavior has social signaling value. Previous research suggests that
enacting pro-environmental behaviors can signal certain personal characteristics, such as …

Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics

O Isler, S Gächter, AJ Maule, C Starmer - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Humans frequently cooperate for collective benefit, even in one-shot social dilemmas. This
provides a challenge for theories of cooperation. Two views focus on intuitions but offer …

[HTML][HTML] Preferences and perceptions in Provision and Maintenance public goods

S Gächter, F Kölle, S Quercia - Games and Economic Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public
good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public …

Second thoughts on free riding

UH Nielsen, JR Tyran, E Wengström - Economics Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online
Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than …

[HTML][HTML] Cooperation, motivation and social balance

SJ Bosworth, T Singer, DJ Snower - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces
to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of “multi-directedness,” whereby …

Framing and feedback in social dilemmas with partners and strangers

CA Cox, B Stoddard - Games, 2015 - mdpi.com
We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give-
and Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or …