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On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game
We use decision-making experiments with human participants to study cooperation in a laboratory public goods game. Such games pose a conflict between cooperating, which is socially optimal and free-riding, which promotes individual self-interest. Prior research emphasizes the need for de-centralized...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28947764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12490-5 |
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author | Chaudhuri, Ananish Paichayontvijit, Tirnud |
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description | We use decision-making experiments with human participants to study cooperation in a laboratory public goods game. Such games pose a conflict between cooperating, which is socially optimal and free-riding, which promotes individual self-interest. Prior research emphasizes the need for de-centralized peer-to-peer punishments as an evolutionarily stable response to the problem of free-riding, especially where interactions occur over long horizons. We show that a simple exhortative message appealing to participants’ goodwill can achieve high rates of cooperation in social dilemmas played over many rounds, even in the absence of punishments for free-riding. |
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spelling | pubmed-56129602017-10-11 On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game Chaudhuri, Ananish Paichayontvijit, Tirnud Sci Rep Article We use decision-making experiments with human participants to study cooperation in a laboratory public goods game. Such games pose a conflict between cooperating, which is socially optimal and free-riding, which promotes individual self-interest. Prior research emphasizes the need for de-centralized peer-to-peer punishments as an evolutionarily stable response to the problem of free-riding, especially where interactions occur over long horizons. We show that a simple exhortative message appealing to participants’ goodwill can achieve high rates of cooperation in social dilemmas played over many rounds, even in the absence of punishments for free-riding. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5612960/ /pubmed/28947764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12490-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Chaudhuri, Ananish Paichayontvijit, Tirnud On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
title | On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
title_full | On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
title_fullStr | On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
title_full_unstemmed | On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
title_short | On the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
title_sort | on the long-run efficacy of punishments and recommendations in a laboratory public goods game |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28947764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12490-5 |
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