Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …

and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment - emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … 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 …

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral ….S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …

participants make a single provision decision. Data was collected using three "data collection processes": an online experiment … conducted on Prolific, an online experiment conducted with a subject pool of university students, and an experiment implemented …

; voluntary contribution mechanism ; incentives ; experiment …

-shot public goods experiment and the joy-of-destruction experiment with pastoralists from both areas. Results from the joy …-of-destruction experiment reveal that a substantial fraction of people is willing to reduce another subject's income, although this comes at an …

property rights. -- property rights ; theft ; efficiency ; experiment ; socio-political factors …