Social setting, intuition and experience in laboratory experiments interact to shape cooperative decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies suggest that cooperative decision-making in one-shot interactions is a history-dependent dynamic process: promoting intuition versus deliberation typically has a positive effect on cooperation (dynamism) among people living in a cooperative setting and with no previous experience in economic games on cooperation (history dependence). Here, we report on a laboratory experiment exploring how these findings transfer to a non-cooperative setting. We find two major results: (i) promoting intuition versus deliberation has no effect on cooperative behaviour among inexperienced subjects living in a non-cooperative setting; (ii) experienced subjects cooperate more than inexperienced subjects, but only under time pressure. These results suggest that cooperation is a learning process,

SUBMITTER: Capraro V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528537 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature