simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent …

a punishment regime, in which certain individuals are permitted, but not required, to have punishment directed toward … them. The punishment system can condition on type and contribution history. The results indicate that the most effective … regime, in terms of contributions and earnings, is one that allows punishment of low contributors only, regardless of …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility …

authority and responder. Both players in each pair have earned an income in an individual real effort decision-making experiment … hedonic impact. (2) 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 …

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …

attempts to increase the severity of punishment will alter the payoff of the individuals involved, leaving unchanged the … the certainty of punishment and the ability of the government to enforce it …