Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons
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 …
maintain a public good,,–, or it needs costly generosity to create one,. Status quo effects …
Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.
Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …
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 …
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 …
enacting pro-environmental behaviors can signal certain personal characteristics, such as …
Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics
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 …
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
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 …
good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public …
Second thoughts on free riding
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 …
Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than …
[HTML][HTML] Cooperation, motivation and social balance
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 …
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 …
and Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or …