welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger about free-riding. If this is the case, then tools that regulate … aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …

. -- conditional cooperation ; selfish bias ; punishment ; public good experiment ; strategy method …This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy …

; median effort game ; experiment …

actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others. We use a lab experiment to …

production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. Additionally, the effect of sleep restriction on an … individual's likelihood of sending costly peer punishment is examined. Actigraphy sleep monitoring watches are used to validate …-parametric as well as regression analysis, we find that when punishment is not available, sleep restriction does not affect the …

of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects … hypotheses derived from the theory. …

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 …, spiteful punishment vanishes if the punishers can no longer affect the payoff differences between themselves and the punished …

by running Prisoner's Dilemma and Third Party Punishment games on three different pools of subjects; students, 'Ordinary … game with Third Party punishment, punishing less as well as tending to punish cooperation (almost as much) as defection …

punishment ; collective action ; public goods ; internet experiment … in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to …