A large literature shares the view that social norms shape human cooperation, but without a
clean empirical identification of the relevant norms almost every behaviour can be …

I survey the literature post Ledyard (Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. by J. Kagel,
A. Roth, Chap. 2, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995) on three related issues in …

One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in
experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by …

Since Durkheim, sociological explanations of social cooperation have emphasized the
internalization of values that induce norm compliance. Since Adam Smith, economic …

We compare the strategy method and the direct response method in public good
experiments in a within-subject design. This comparison is interesting because the strategy …

Although the Paris Agreement arguably made some progress, interest in supplementary
approaches to climate change co-operation persist. This article examines the conditions …

We explore the extent to which altruism, as measured by giving in a dictator game (DG),
accounts for play in a noisy version of the repeated prisoner's dilemma. We find that DG …

Economic games such as the public goods game are increasingly being used to measure
social behaviours in humans and non-human primates. The results of such games have …

Behavior in trust games has been linked to general notions of trust and trustworthiness,
important components of social capital. In the equilibrium of a trust game, the investor does …

This paper experimentally investigates how individual preferences, through unrestricted
deliberation, are aggregated into a group decision in two contexts: reciprocating gifts and …