Erik Wengström
Professor, Director of Doctoral studies, Department of Economics
Cognitive Load and Cooperation
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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
Links
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