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Conditional Cooperation
“Your willingness to contribute may shift with what you expect from everyone else.”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
In public-goods experiments, many participants contribute more when they expect larger contributions from the group. They coexist with more self-interested or unconditional types, so composition and information matter.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
In a neighborhood fund, someone agrees to pay more after seeing verifiable commitments from other households.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
Not all cooperation is imitative calculation, and a laboratory rate cannot predict every community.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Make credible commitments visible without assuming everyone will respond alike.