Cooperation and optimism in a social dilemma

Author: Andreoni, Andreoni, Angerer, Balliet, Buckholtz, Cardenas, Croson, Dorrough, Fehr, Fischbacher, Hamilton, Herrmann, Kocher, Laffont, Maslow, McAuliffe, Rand, Shkurko, Smith, Sugden, Tajfel, West
Publisher: Wiley

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We examine the influence of optimism about local and foreign people on social cooperation using a public goods game. Firstly, we find that optimism fuels social cooperation, and secondly, that this positive effect holds when optimism is focused either jointly or individually

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