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

We report data from public goods games showing that privately-implemented punishment reduces cooperation in relation to … a baseline treatment without punishment. When that same incentive is implemented publicly, however, cooperation is … sustained at significantly higher rates than in either the baseline or private punishment treatments. Our design ensures that …

and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experiment aimed at determining the … relative importance of intentions and incentives in producing non-cooperative behavior in a personal exchange environment …

of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … significantly increases when normative information and weak punishment are combined, but only when compliance is relatively cheap …. When compliance is more costly, we find that the combination of punishment and generic empirical information about others …

promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can …Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although … punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics …

's attitudes regarding the punishment of distrusting behavior in a trust game. Our results show that people do not behave as though … imposes punishment for noncompliance. To test this, we report data from a survey with salient rewards to elicit people …