Journal
REVIEW OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 69-81Publisher
NOW PUBLISHERS INC
DOI: 10.1561/105.00000059
Keywords
Public goods; Cooperation; Cognitive load; Experiment
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- Department of Economics of the University of Copenhagen
- Ragnar Soderberg Foundation
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We study the effect of intuitive and reflective processes on cooperation using cognitive load. Compared with time constraint, which has been used in the previous literature, cognitive load is a more direct way to block reflective processes, and thus a more suitable way to study the link between intuition and cooperation. Using a repeated public goods game, we study the effect of different levels of cognitive load on contributions. We show that a higher cognitive load increases the initial level of cooperation. In particular, subjects are significantly less likely to fully free ride under high cognitive load.
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