Making good cider out of bad apples --- Signaling expectations boosts cooperation among would-be free riders

The present study investigates how group-cooperation heuristics boost voluntary contributions in a repeated public goods game. We manipulate two separate factors in a two-person public goods game: i) group composition (Selfish Subjects vs. Conditional Cooperators) and ii) common knowledge about grou...

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Main Authors: Michiru Nagatsu, Karen Larsen, Mia Karabegovic, Marcell Székely, Dan Mønster, John Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/16/161219/jdm161219.pdf