Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion

Arbeitspapier

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject. We find that, among conditional cooperators, only those who expect others to contribute little to the public good are significantly betrayal averse, while there is no evidence of betrayal aversion for those who expect substantial contributions by others. This is consistent with their social risk taking in public goods games, as the pessimistic conditional cooperators tend to avoid contribution to avoid exploitation, whereas the optimistic ones typically contribute to the public good and thus take the social risk of being exploited.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9241

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Public Goods ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Noncooperative Games
• Thema: exploitation aversion ; betrayal aversion ; trust ; conditional cooperation ; public goods game ; free riding ; experiments

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cubitt, Robin ; Gächter, Simon ; Quercia, Simone
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/114117
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ