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We designed this public goods experiment to isolate the effects of being shamed or honoured, with no monetary consequences to either experience, and test whether the expectation of negative or positive reputational information enforces social behaviour.

If players know that only the least or most cooperative individuals are to stand in front of their peers, will they cooperate more as a group?

In games that offer players anonymity, uncooperative behaviour is more prevalent [7] while the opposite is true of games in which players know that each of their decisions will be linked to their real identities [8–10]

confirming that, even when only the least or most cooperative individuals are to stand in front of their peers, players cooperate more as a group

expected that shame might be more effective than honour

n contrast to our expectations, we found no significant differences in group contributions over the first 10 rounds between the shame and honour treatments.

We hypothesized that the threat of shame or the prospect of honour would lead to increased public contributions.

Our results show that a promise to single out free-riding individuals for public scrutiny can lead to greater cooperation from the whole group, as can singling out the most generous individuals.

Group cooperation in the shame treatment significantly declined following round 10 (paired t-test between 10th and 12th round, t = 3.67, p = 0.005), corroborating our finding that the threat of being singled out as a free rider had been driving cooperation.

Cues of being watched enhance cooperation [11] and when humans lived in small groups, it was easy to observe individual behaviour.

language, replaced direct observation

the absence of shaming by the state does not preclude the absence of shame altogether in society, especially as social media increases the frequency, speed and inclusiveness of communication.

The Internet increasingly creates a global town square where controls are harder to implement and enforce, gossip travels fast, and where shame as well as honour therefore might experience resurgence.

Transparency also enhances cooperation [8–10] but can be costly to provide and its use can be limited. Transparency requires time evaluating and determining a satisfactory performance.

difficult in our current era, where human attention, not information, is a scarce resource [15].

awareness (such as meditation)

help people learn how to identify and de-identify with various groups, by allowing them to experience the variety of social contexts.

Roland's

not only be critical thinking but systems thinking

help people become more self-dependent.

experiences are organized for children from the early age

raise the level of critical thinking

Education is liberating.

The notion of indirect reciprocity could be important here: doing things for those groups without expecting to get a return, but setting an example

reject the notion of tribes or of people being permanently and essentially bad and extremist, and to be welcoming and kind

Bodil's

I can work with other communities which are open, tolerant and welcoming.

Better distribution of resources.

reputation and trust

know how to build trust and create cooperation, we should know something about breaking bad patterns

knowledge about social dilemmas

“growth mindset”

David's

separating fiction from fact,

interaction in order to reveal the "true" characteristics of inform

physical security, enough to eat, a place to sleep, freedom from threat.

John's

little can be done at the level of the individual, other than being aware that our appreciation of ideas, and our tendency to engage in counterproductive behavior may be due to forces other than the ideas themselves.

becoming aware of our own weaknesses with regard to absorbing new information

it is possible to gather individuals into a super organism that is less vulnerable to being victimized by false or misleading information,

we need access to information and skill in critical thinking

Hermano's

My political answer is internationalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_(politics).

High level of material, political, physical, psychological etc personal independance

My cultural answer is to displace the ubiquitous narrative of competition by this narrative of cooperative

traces of trustworthiness online,

tactical tool is the internet.

empowers the common man to act at multiple levels, assuming responsibility for all the nested groups to which he would belong.

Inger's

 Fighting discrimination

stereotypes

negative stereotypes

experience the feeling of discrimination in order to fight it.

Discrimination starts with stereotypes that turn into prejudice, and the individual becomes a member of a group that is dehmanised and stripped of human qualities.

Elena's

Meditation skills

life satisfaction

transferring an ultimate level of governance and common legislation to structures above nation states

Practices of integration of spirit-mind-body

value of own life and personal voe not to destroy self

Calisa's

only possible escape route is to get a glimpse of life on the outside, to see that there are different ways to live one's life, to understand that there are choices.

only through the glimpse can the child even begin to contemplate the notion of breaking the "pre-wiring"

glimpse does not guarantee escape

 shine your light brightly:

If there are children in your life, invest in them

Sahil's

Stay informed about the big, complex world-shaping issues

Use technology to express yourself beyond your home and workplace

same forces producing the 'dark' forms of social cooperation mentioned above - compliance, conformance, solidarity - are perhaps the same forces behind 'good' cooperation.

continually trying to re-imagine our 'imagined communities'

the more connected we are, the more we'll be forced to recognize others' interests as our own.

might include: cultural traits and norms based on morality (i.e. religion), integration of market economies, promoting greater free-flow of people/ideas, promoting denser urban centers, open access to information, monogamy??, anti-nepotism norms, cooperative higher institutions (with ability to manage laws/reputations/punishment).

Luis'

 We are “pre-wired” to cooperate within our tribe

impact of group identity

“manifold and profound”

make group identity salient

redefining the boundaries of the group to include more people is the best opportunity for change

Once you include everyone in the group, you find ways to encourage interactions among both sub-groups,

narcos manage to stay loyal and cooperate within their cartel when competing against other cartels with equally loyal members.

discourage cooperation inside the cartel groups

Assurance game, because one narco will only fight if the other fights, and will defect if the other defects

The key issue in the Assurance Game is whether we can trust each other.