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 …

that the specific punishment technology adopted plays in this context, and test to what extent punishing behavior can be … truly attributed to negative emotions. We find that a large part (around 70%) of the punishment behavior observed in … previous PTTG studies is explained by the technology of punishment adopted instead of negative emotions. Once this effect is …

-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income … punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy … nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroyeverything). (4) Expectations have a significant effect on the …

-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 …

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 …