COOPERATION AND OPTIMISM IN A SOCIAL DILEMMA

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2018-10-01
Oyediran, Olusegun A.
Rivas, M. Fernanda
Coulson, Mark
Kernohan, David
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.
BULLETIN OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

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O. A. Oyediran, M. F. Rivas, M. Coulson, and D. Kernohan, “COOPERATION AND OPTIMISM IN A SOCIAL DILEMMA,” BULLETIN OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, pp. 335–340, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67555.