We formally explore the idea that punishment of norm-breakers may be a vehicle for the older generation to teach … between past, present, and future punishment. Information about the past is important for youngsters, because the past shapes … the future. Reward-based mechanisms may also work and are welfare superior to punishment-based ones. However, reward …

cooperation and strategies, such as punishment and gossip, to promote cooperation in social dilemmas. In two studies involving …’ ability to distribute resources in a dictator game, and measure punishment, gossip, and cooperative behaviors in a multi …-round public goods game. Findings largely replicate previous research showing that punishment and gossip opportunities increase …

mechanisms to the dilemma in recent decades. Although punishment is thought to be a key mechanism, evolutionary game theory has … revealed that the simplest form of punishment called peer punishment is useless to solve the dilemma, since peer punishment … itself is costly. In the literature, more complex types of punishment, such as pool punishment or institutional punishment …

welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger about free-riding. If this is the case, then tools that regulate …

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 …

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

punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional … punishment offers a unique potential advantage: the ability to control how quickly legal rules of punishment evolve relative to … social behavior that legal punishment regulates. However, at what rate should legal rules evolve relative to society to …

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. …

hypocritical behavior and if this judgment also translates into punishment. Results show that observers do, indeed, condemn … punishment. Punishment seems to be driven more by the violation of the norm of fair distribution than by moral pretense. From the … viewpoint of positive retributivism, it is problematic if neither formal nor informal punishment follows moral condemnation. …

Experiments using the public goods game have repeatedly shown that in cooperative social environments, punishment makes … cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where … antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment was detrimental to cooperation. The success of punishment in enhancing …