Cognitive Load and Cooperation
(2017) In Review of Behavioral Economics 4(1). p.69-92- Abstract
- 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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- author
- Døssing, Felix ; Piovesan, Marco and Wengström, Erik LU
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- publishing date
- 2017-04-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- C70, C90, D03, public goods, cooperation, cognitive load, experiment
- in
- Review of Behavioral Economics
- volume
- 4
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- Now Publishers Inc
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- scopus:85021970565
- ISSN
- 2326-6198
- DOI
- 10.1561/105.00000059
- language
- English
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- yes
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