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Mantilla, Cesar (2014) Are we more wearful than greedy? Outbounding the incentives to defect in cooperation dilemmas. IAST working paper, n. 14-08, Toulouse
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Abstract
Previous studies analyzing the impact of payoffs' cardinality in cooperation dilemmas have concluded that the additional benefits of defecting against a cooperator (the greed dimension) are more salient than the additional costs of cooperating against a defector (the fear dimension). We conduct an experiment to show that when the costs of cooperation exceed its gains, this pattern is reversed. The larger impact of fear over greed on the likelihood to defect is robust to random rematching and to repeated matching, and is mostly driven by a relative rather than an absolute perception of the incentives to cooperate across different dilemmas.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | April 2014 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| JEL Classification: | C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2016 08:19 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 15:21 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:28189 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21618 |
