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Replication files: Sharing Compromising Information as a Cooperative Strategy

Gambetta, Diego; Przepiorka, Wojtek
GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2559
Abstract: Well-enforced norms create an opportunity for norm breakers to cooperate in ventures requiring trust. This is realized when norm breakers, by sharing evidence of their breaches, make themselves vulnerable to denunciation and therefore trustworthy. The sharing of compromising information (SCI) is a strategy employed by criminals, politicians, and other actors wary of their partners’ trustworthiness in which the cost of ensuring compliance is offloaded on clueless norm enforcers. Here we introduce SCI as a sui generis cooperative strategy and test its functioning experimentally. In our experimen ... more
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - NonCommercial – NoDerivatives (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de)
Subject area: [Organizational Sociology, Military Sociology [=] Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law [=] Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics [=] Social Psychology [=] Economic theory and methodology]
Topics: cooperation | information system | social norm | trust | trustworthiness | laboratory experiment

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 2016-02-25; 2016-03-01
Geographic coverage: [Italy / IT]
Geographic coverage (free): [Bologna]
Universe: University students and employees
Sampling Procedure: Non-probability Sample - Availability Sample
Mode of Data Collection: Laboratory experiment

Bibliographic information

Primärforschende, Institution: Gambetta, Diego; Collegio Carlo Alberto | Przepiorka, Wojtek; Utrecht University
Publication year: 2023
DOI: 10.7802/2559
Study number: SDN-10.7802-2559
Project funder: Research Council of the European University Institute
Publisher: GESIS, Cologne

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2559

Reference publications

Publications: Gambetta, D., & Przepiorka, W. (2019). Sharing compromising information as a cooperative strategy. Sociological Science, 6, 352-379. https://doi.org/10.15195/v6.a14

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Gambetta, Diego, & Przepiorka, Wojtek (2023). Replication files: Sharing Compromising Information as a Cooperative Strategy. GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2559.

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