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Portrait of Erik Wengström. Photo.

Erik Wengström

Professor, Director of Doctoral studies, Department of Economics

Portrait of Erik Wengström. Photo.

Cognitive Load and Cooperation

Author

  • Felix Døssing
  • Marco Piovesan
  • Erik Wengström

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2017-04-11

Language

English

Pages

69-92

Publication/Series

Review of Behavioral Economics

Volume

4

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Now Publishers Inc

Topic

  • Applied Psychology
  • Economics

Keywords

  • C70
  • C90
  • D03
  • public goods
  • cooperation
  • cognitive load
  • experiment

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2326-6198