Are people conditionally cooperative

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“Do the right thing:” The effects of moral suasion on cooperation (2014, background): “It is also well known that optimistic beliefs about the cooperation of others raise cooperation (Fischbacher et al. 2001).”
Self-signaling and social-signaling in giving (2015, background): “Economists and psychologists have argued for the role that self-signaling plays in observed patterns f giving (Murnighan et al., 2001; Dana et al., 2007; Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi, 2013) and in maintaining honesty (Mazar t al., 2008).”
The promise of Mechanical Turk: how online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments. (2012, background): “An often discussed example from the experimental economics literature is the idea of people being ‘conditional cooperators’ in one-shot settings, such that they will cooperate as long as they expect the other player(s) to also cooperate (Fischbacher et al., 2001).”
The behavioural economics of climate change (2008, background): “For example, Fischbacher et al. (2001) found that a large fraction of subjects increased their contributions in a one-shot public-good game if others did so too.”