@article{ref1,
title="Engineering human cooperation",
journal="Human nature",
year="2007",
author="Burnham, Terence C. and Hare, Brian",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="88-108",
abstract="In a laboratory experiment, we use a public goods game to examine the hypothesis that human subjects use an involuntary eye-detector mechanism for evaluating the level of privacy. Half of our subjects are &quot;watched&quot; by images of a robot presented on their computer screen. The robot--named Kismet and invented at MIT--is constructed from objects that are obviously not human with the exception of its eyes. In our experiment, Kismet produces a significant difference in behavior that is not consistent with existing economic models of preferences, either self- or other-regarding. Subjects who are &quot;watched&quot; by Kismet contribute 29% more to the public good than do subjects in the same setting without Kismet.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1045-6767",
doi="10.1007/s12110-007-9012-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-007-9012-2"
}