Experiments investigating cooperative types in humans: a complement to evolutionary theory and simulations.

By Robert Kurzban, Daniel Houser. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The behavioral validity of the strategy method in public good experiments (2012, background): “.de, fischbacher@twi-kreuzlingen.ch (U. Fischbacher), simon.gaechter@nottingham.ac.uk (S. Gächter), urlando and Guala (2005), Kurzban and Houser (2005), Chaudhuri and Paichayontvijit (2006), Bardsley d Sutter (2008), Muller, Sefton, Steinberg, and Vesterlund (2008), Duffy and Ochs (2009), Grimm and…”
Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences (2012, background): “can be classified as cooperators, while between 20 and 30 percent are Free Riders (e.g., Fischbacher and Gächter, 2010; Kurzban and Houser, 2005).”
NORMS MAKE PREFERENCES SOCIAL: Norms Make Preferences Social (2015, background): “…and Kurzban, 2002, for a lively discussion of whether contributions are driven by kindness or confusion), and one promising line of research has focused on the presence of types such as conditional and unconditional cooperators (Fischbacher, Gächter, and Fehr, 2001; Kurzban and Houser, 2005).”
Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory (2008, background): “…behavior has been linked to the relatively stable prosocial personality components of conscientiousness and agreeableness (Boone et al. 1999; Burghart et al. 2005), and studies have shown that individuals playing repeated games exhibit consistent patterns of game play (Kurzban and Houser 2005).”
Self-signaling and social-signaling in giving (2015, background): “Experimental studies of player heterogeneity typically find one-fifth to one-third of the population o be “selfish types” (e.g. Fischbacher et al., 2001; Kurzban and Hauser, 2005; Burlando and Guala, 2004).”
What Motivates Common Pool Resource Users? Experimental Evidence from the Field (2009, unknown): “Kurzban and Houser (2005) use a statistical-type classification algorithm to empirically assign individuals to one of three types in a public good experiment. Their algorithm identifies 20% of their subjects as free-riders, 13% as cooperators (altruists) and 63% as reciprocators or conditional coope”
Sustaining cooperation in laboratory public goods experiments: a selective survey of the literature (2011, background): “…in period t − 1) they show that such “imperfect” conditional cooperation is at the heart of the decay in contributions over time.12 Like Fischbacher and Gächter (2009, 2010), Kurzban and Houser (2005) also look at the robustness of conditional cooperation using a more elaborate experimental design.”