Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a selective survey of the literature

A Chaudhuri - Experimental economics, 2011‏ - Springer
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 …

Reward, punishment, and cooperation: a meta-analysis.

D Balliet, LB Mulder, PAM Van Lange - Psychological bulletin, 2011‏ - psycnet.apa.org
How effective are rewards (for cooperation) and punishment (for noncooperation) as tools to
promote cooperation in social dilemmas or situations when immediate self-interest and …

Regimes of expectations: An active inference model of social conformity and human decision making

A Constant, MJD Ramstead, SPL Veissière… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in
distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this …

Preferences and beliefs in ingroup favoritism

JAC Everett, NS Faber, M Crockett - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Ingroup favoritism—the tendency to favor members of one's own group over those in other
groups—is well documented, but the mechanisms driving this behavior are not well …

Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness

ME McCullough, R Kurzban, BA Tabak - Behavioral and Brain …, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

The evolution of altruism in humans

R Kurzban, MN Burton-Chellew… - Annual review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Humans are an intensely social species, frequently performing costly behaviors that benefit
others. Efforts to solve the evolutionary puzzle of altruism have a lengthy history, and recent …

The economics of fairness, reciprocity and altruism–experimental evidence and new theories

E Fehr, KM Schmidt - Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that material
self-interest exclusively motivates all people. Experimental economists have gathered …

Punishment and counter-punishment in public good games: Can we really govern ourselves?

N Nikiforakis - Journal of Public Economics, 2008‏ - Elsevier
A number of experimental studies have shown that the opportunity to punish anti-social
behavior increases cooperation levels when agents face a social dilemma. Using a public …

Human motivation and social cooperation: Experimental and analytical foundations

E Fehr, H Gintis - Annu. Rev. Sociol., 2007‏ - annualreviews.org
Since Durkheim, sociological explanations of social cooperation have emphasized the
internalization of values that induce norm compliance. Since Adam Smith, economic …

The effect of rewards and sanctions in provision of public goods

M Sefton, R Shupp, JM Walker - Economic inquiry, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
A growing number of field and experimental studies focus on the institutional arrangements
by which individuals are able to solve collective action problems. Important in this research …