{"id":2074,"date":"2010-05-20T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:01:04","slug":"a-deflationary-approach-to-economic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/icci-blog\/a-deflationary-approach-to-economic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"A deflationary approach to economic games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forthcoming in PNAS, an important paper by Rolf K\u00fcmmerli, Maxwell Burton-Chellew, Adin Ross-Gillespie and Stuart West: \u201cResistance to extreme strategies, rather thanprosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods games\u201d (available here<\/a>) that illustrates “why caution must be exercised when interpreting the evolutionary implications of economic experiments.”<\/p>\n

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The results of numerous economic games suggest that humans behave more cooperatively than would be expected if they were maximizing selfish interests. It has been argued that this is because individuals gain satisfaction from the success of others, and that such prosocial preferences require a novel evolutionary explanation. However, in previous games, imperfect behavior would automatically lead to an increase in cooperation, making it impossible to decouple any form of mistake or error from prosocial cooperative decisions. Here we empirically test between these alternatives by decoupling imperfect behavior from prosocial preferences in modified versions of the public goods game, in which individuals would maximize their selfish gain by completely (100%) cooperating. We found that, although this led to higher levels of cooperation, it did not lead to full cooperation, and individuals still perceived their group mates as competitors. This is inconsistent with either selfish or prosocial preferences, suggesting that the most parsimonious explanation is imperfect behavior triggered by psychological drives that can prevent both complete defection and complete cooperation. More generally, our results illustrate the caution that must be exercised when interpreting the evolutionary implications of economic experiments, especially the absolute level of cooperation in a particular treatment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forthcoming in PNAS, an important paper by Rolf K\u00fcmmerli, Maxwell Burton-Chellew, Adin Ross-Gillespie and Stuart West: \u201cResistance to extreme strategies, rather thanprosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods games\u201d (available here) that illustrates “why caution must be exercised when interpreting the evolutionary implications of economic experiments.” Abstract: The results of numerous economic games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA deflationary approach to economic games - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scary-committee.localsite.io\/blogs\/icci-blog\/a-deflationary-approach-to-economic-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A deflationary approach to economic games - 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