What makes cooperation precarious?

IF 2.5 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2024-02-18 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2024.102712

Christoph Engel , Bettina Rockenbach

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Abstract

Although most people are not outright selfish, cooperation frequently fails. Fischbacher and Gächter (2010) explain the well-established decline of contributions in repeated public good games with a genuine imperfection in conditional cooperation. Reanalyzing their data, we offer a more nuanced explanation. Conditional cooperators are nearly perfect, when others cooperate as well. Yet conditional cooperators strongly react to negative experiences, chiefly caused by selfish individuals. These bad experiences are the main driver for the imperfection in conditional cooperation and thus of the downward trend in contributions in repeated public good games.

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是什么让合作岌岌可危？

尽管大多数人并不完全自私，但合作经常会失败。Fischbacher 和 Gächter（2010 年）用条件合作的真正不完善解释了在重复的公益博弈中贡献下降这一公认的现象。通过重新分析他们的数据，我们提出了更细致的解释。当其他人也合作时，条件合作者几乎是完美的。然而，条件合作者会对负面经历做出强烈反应，这些负面经历主要是由自私的个体造成的。这些负面经历是导致有条件合作不完美的主要原因，因此也是导致重复公益博弈中贡献率呈下降趋势的主要原因。

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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5.20

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31.40%

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63 days

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