Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions
or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. Standard game theory assumes that …

We present a meta-analytic review of the literature on sex differences in the trust game (174
effect sizes) and the related gift-exchange game (35 effect sizes). Based on parental …

We compare the behavior of groups and individuals in a two-person trust game. The first
mover in this game, the sender, receives an endowment and can send any part of it to the …

While most papers on team decision-making find that teams behave more selfishly, less
trustingly and less altruistically than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are …

This paper analyzes the effect on performance and earnings of delegating the wage choice
to employees. Our results show that such delegation significantly increases effort levels …

We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When
teams, rather than individuals, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination …

Considering the complications of collecting empirical data on community participation, this
study proposes a new methodological approach that departs from the current literature. For …

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

We use a laboratory experiment to compare the way groups and individuals behave in an
inter-temporal common pool dilemma. The experimental design distinguishes between a …

We examine how groups differ from individuals in how they tackle two fundamental trade-
offs in learning from experience—namely, between exploration and exploitation and …