Browsing by Subject "cooperation"
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A Strategic Model of Magical Thinking: Axioms and Analysis
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-09-26)This paper seeks to make two contributions. First, we propose and analyze a tractable model of strategic play in which players behave as if their expectations about their opponents' behavior vary with their own choices. ... -
Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017-06-19)Humans regularly provide others with resources at a personal cost to themselves. Chimpanzees engage in some cooperative behaviors in the wild as well, but their motivational underpinnings are unclear. In three experiments, ... -
Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children.
(Psychol Sci, 2018-02)The motivation to build and maintain a positive personal reputation promotes prosocial behavior. But individuals also identify with their groups, and so it is possible that the desire to maintain or enhance group reputation ... -
Essays on Identification and Promotion of Game-Theoretic Cooperation
(2018)This dissertation looks at how to identify and promote cooperation in a multiagent system, first theoretically through the lens of computational game theory and later empirically through a human subject experiment. Chapter ... -
Foundations for Cooperation in the Prisoners’ Dilemma
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-05-07)We provide axiomatic foundations for a simple model of play in prisoners' dilemma games. The model accommodates cooperation and suggests that players behave as if their expectations about their opponents' behavior vary with ... -
Motivating children's cooperation to conserve forests.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2022-04-18)Forests are essential common-pool resources. Understanding children's and adolescents' motivations for conservation is critical to improving conservation education. In 2 experiments, we investigated 1086 school-aged children ... -
Supplement to a Strategic Model of Magical Thinking: Axioms and Analysis
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-09-26)We establish that in the Prisoners' Dilemma, the model of Daley and Sadowski (2014) is logically distinct from three models that employ well-known forms of other-regarding preferences: altruism (Ledyard, 1995; Levine, 1998), ... -
To Snack or Not to Snack? Children's Self-Regulation in the Presence of Peers
(2019-04-23)As established by Walter Mischel through his famous “Marshmallow Task”, children around the age of 4 are able to put of a current, small reward in favor of a later and greater reward (Mischel & Mischel, 1983; Mischel, W. ...
