punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … platoons. We find that, without competition between groups, individuals are more prone to cooperate altruistically in a … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively …

The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …

extent the findings of this literature are driven by the particular punishment technology adopted, and whether the experience … still play an important role when the potential relevant confound is removed from the punishment technology; (b) subjects … display a similar behavior under a punishment technology with a constant and variable 'fine-to-fee' ratio; (c) previous …

become revenue for authorities and thus motivate profit-seeking punishment. In this paper, we design a novel experiment to …Punishment typically involves depriving violators of resources they own such as money or labor. These resources can … provide direct evidence on the role punishment plays in communicating norms. Importantly, this allows us to provide …

vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the “hired gun” mechanism …

-making experiment preceding the take game. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much …) Irritation and contempt drive punishment behavior. (3) There are discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either … choose no punishment (destroy nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroy everything). (4) Expectations have a …

choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining high …