Cooperation

Berkman and others around Harvard have been developing tools for running economics and psychology experiments online, using the internet as a virtual behavioral lab. At Berkman, our particular focus has been on cooperation and generosity, using games such as a the Prisoner's Dilemma to explore what motivates people to help each other.

We are looking for an intern to help develop software for running the games, and to actually design, launch and collect data from experiments. The intern will work with people at Berkman as well as Harvard researchers affiliated with psychology, economics and evolutionary biology departments.