Could shame and honor save cooperation?

Could shame and honor save cooperation?

Shame and honor are mechanisms that expose behavior that falls outside the social norm. With recent six-player public goods experiments, we demonstrated that the threat of shame or the promise of honor led to increased cooperation. Participants were told in advance that after ten rounds two participants would be asked to come forward and write their names on the board in front of the fellow gro...

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Jennifer Jacquet,* Christoph Hauert, Arne Traulsen and Manfred Milinski Department of Mathematics; University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC Canada; Sea Around Us Project; University of British Columbia; Vancouver, BC Canada; Research Group for Evolutionary Theory; Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology; Plön, Germany; Department of Evolutionary Ecology; Max-Planck-Institute for Evol...

Shame and honour drive cooperation

Can the threat of being shamed or the prospect of being honoured lead to greater cooperation? We test this hypothesis with anonymous six-player public goods experiments, an experimental paradigm used to investigate problems related to overusing common resources. We instructed the players that the two individuals who were least generous after 10 rounds would be exposed to the group. As the natur...

Could Your Pet Save Your Life?

How new heart-scanning technology could save your life.

http://ww ckelma rol was just passed a stress test with flying colors. So last November, when a gist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital asked the then 49-year-old ed nurse to help demonstrate an experimental new cardiac scanner, neither the n nor Fackelmann expected to see anything out of the ordinary. The idea was to slide Fackelmann through the machine and show what finely detailed o...