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 …

the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment …. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribery in future. The evidence suggests that this game captures essential features of a …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …

information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the … explanatory power of punishment is constrained by the visibility of cheating. …

whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …

We examine the effectiveness of the individual-punishment mechanism in larger groups, comparing groups of four to … groups of 40 participants. We find that the individual punishment mechanism is remarkably robust when the marginal per capita … efficiency gains from the punishment mechanism are significantly higher in the 40-participant than in the four …

We elicit individual-level peer-punishment types in a cooperation (social dilemma) and a coordination (weakest link …) problem. In line with previous literature, we find heterogeneity in peer-punishment in both environments. Comparing punishment … behavior across the two environments within subject, we observe a high degree of individuals’ punishment type stability …