Positive interactions may decrease cooperation in social dilemma experiments.

ABSTRACT: A social dilemma appears in the public goods problem, where the individual has to decide whether to contribute to a common resource. The total contributions to the common pool are increased by a synergy factor and evenly split among the members. The ideal outcome occurs if everyone contributes the maximum amount. However, regardless of what the others do, each individual is better off by contributing nothing. Yet, cooperation is largely observed in human society. Many mechanisms have been shown to promote cooperation in humans, alleviating, or even resolving, the social dilemma. One class of mechanisms that is under-explored is the spillover of experiences obtained from different environments. There is some evidence that positive experiences promote cooperative behaviour. Here, we address

SUBMITTER: Wardil L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6355953 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature