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 …

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although …

heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidental but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …

and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice … in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose between a community with and an alternative without punishment … opportunities. Within each community a social dilemma game is played. While the community with punishment grows over time and fully …

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 …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

and privileged groups with and without decentralized punishment. We find that compared to normal groups, privileged groups … are relatively ineffective in using costly sanctions to increase everyone's contributions. Punishment is less targeted …