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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology

Background:

  • Previous research suggested an "intuitive-cooperation effect," where quick decisions (intuition) led to more cooperation than slow, reflective decisions.
  • This effect challenges traditional economic and evolutionary models by proposing an intuitive inclination towards cooperation.
  • The original findings were based on a 4-player public goods game with a marginal return of 0.5.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the generality of the intuitive-cooperation effect.
  • To validate the experimental task used to demonstrate intuitive cooperation.
  • To investigate the influence of knowledge about other players and their identity (human vs. computer) on cooperation under different time constraints.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a 4-player public goods game with Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) workers and inexperienced participants.
  • Manipulated factors including knowledge of other players' contributions, player identity (human/computer), and decision time constraints (time pressure vs. forced delay).
  • Performed one initial experiment and four direct replication attempts to test the intuitive-cooperation effect.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 did not reveal any intuitive-cooperation effect.
  • Subsequent replication attempts (Experiments 2a, 2b, 2c, and 3) also failed to demonstrate the intuitive-cooperation effect.
  • No significant evidence was found to support the claim that people are intuitively cooperative.

Conclusions:

  • The findings do not corroborate the intuitive-cooperation effect.
  • The theoretical relationship between intuition and cooperation requires further scrutiny and empirical investigation.
  • The reliability of the experimental paradigm for demonstrating intuitive cooperation is questioned.