Cognitive Load and Cooperation

Felix Sebastian Døssing; Marco Piovesan; Erik Roland Wengström

doi:10.1561/105.00000059

Cognitive Load and Cooperation

Felix Sebastian Døssing, Marco Piovesan, Erik Roland Wengström

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Review of Behavioral Economics
Volume	4
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	69-81
ISSN	2326-6201
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1561/105.00000059
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Faculty of Social Sciences
Public goods
Cooperation
Cognitive load
Experiment

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