Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
We investigate whether there is an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion, two phenomena that we conjecture share common psychological characteristics despite having been studied largely separately in the previous literature. We use a public goods game to categorize subjec...
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| author | Cubitt, Robin Gaechter, Simon Quercia, Simone |
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| description | We investigate whether there is an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion, two phenomena that we conjecture share common psychological characteristics despite having been studied largely separately in the previous literature. We use a public goods game to categorize subjects by type of contribution preference and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject. We report three studies, using two different methods to measure betrayal aversion: a standard elicitation with monetary incentives and a novel scenario-based measure that we argue addresses concerns about the standard measure. We find strong and robust evidence of an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion in the scenario-based measures but not in the standard measure. |
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| spelling | nottingham-441252020-05-04T19:09:44Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44125/ Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion Cubitt, Robin Gaechter, Simon Quercia, Simone We investigate whether there is an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion, two phenomena that we conjecture share common psychological characteristics despite having been studied largely separately in the previous literature. We use a public goods game to categorize subjects by type of contribution preference and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject. We report three studies, using two different methods to measure betrayal aversion: a standard elicitation with monetary incentives and a novel scenario-based measure that we argue addresses concerns about the standard measure. We find strong and robust evidence of an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion in the scenario-based measures but not in the standard measure. Elsevier 2017-09-30 Article PeerReviewed Cubitt, Robin, Gaechter, Simon and Quercia, Simone (2017) Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 141 . pp. 110-121. ISSN 0167-2681 Public goods game; Conditional cooperation; Trust; Betrayal aversion; Exploitation aversion; Free riding; Experiments http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268117301713 doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.013 doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.013 |
| spellingShingle | Public goods game; Conditional cooperation; Trust; Betrayal aversion; Exploitation aversion; Free riding; Experiments Cubitt, Robin Gaechter, Simon Quercia, Simone Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| title | Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| title_full | Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| title_fullStr | Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| title_short | Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| title_sort | conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion |
| topic | Public goods game; Conditional cooperation; Trust; Betrayal aversion; Exploitation aversion; Free riding; Experiments |
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