This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how … fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role …

) Irritation and contempt drive punishment behavior. (3) There are discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either … choose no punishment (destroy nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroy everything). (4) Expectations have a … significant effect on the probability of punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. We explain this last result …

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group members themselves … individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that individuals may be willing to … delegate the punishment to a central, external authority. The key questions to answered are, whether individuals are willing …