to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized …

bear a higher burden of punishment costs than non-police subjects. When the norm enforcement institution is endogenous, all …

pressure can increase rates of punishment. We discuss our results with respect to findings in the lab on cognitive models of … dual-processing and the origins of human cooperation. …

-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …

social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the … that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be preferred by the … people. Here, we show that efficient peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges quickly if we introduce …

cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma game. We find that third-party punishment exhibits a strikingly positive effect on … cooperation rates by doubling them in comparison to a control condition. It promotes cooperative behavior even before punishment …Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social …

in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …

. To provide theoretical foundations for social reciprocity, we show that generalized punishment norms survive in one of …

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which … theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … towards the defectors but the latter also impose a considerable amount of spiteful punishment on the cooperators. However …