Social setting, intuition, and experience in lab experiments interact to shape cooperative decision-making
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Capraro, V. and Cococcioni, G. 2015. Social setting, intuition, and experience in lab experiments interact to shape cooperative decision-making. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1811). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0237
| Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Title | Social setting, intuition, and experience in lab experiments interact to shape cooperative decision-making |
| Authors | Capraro, V. and Cococcioni, G. |
| Abstract | Recent studies suggest that cooperative decision-making in one-shot interactions is a history-dependent dynamic process: promoting intuition versus deliberation has typically a positive effect on cooperation (dynamism) among people living in a coop- erative setting and with no previous experience in economic games on cooperation (history-dependence). Here we report on a lab 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 behavior 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, rather than an instinctive impulse or a self-controlled choice, and that experience operates primarily via the channel of intuition. In doing so, our findings shed further light on the cognitive basis of human cooperative decision-making and provide further support for the recently proposed Social Heuristics Hypothesis. |
| Publisher | The Royal Society |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
| ISSN | 0962-8452 |
| Electronic | 1471-2954 |
| Publication dates | |
| 01 Jun 2015 | |
| Online | 22 Jul 2015 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 14 Feb 2020 |
| Accepted | 06 Jun 2015 |
| Output status | Published |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Additional information | Cite this article: Capraro V, Cococcioni G. 2015 Social setting, intuition and experience in laboratory experiments interact to shape cooperative decision-making. Proc. R. Soc. B 282: 20150237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0237 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0237 |
| Language | English |
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