We conduct an experiment to examine the role of retribution and deterrence in motivating third party punishment. In … individual. In a one-shot prisoner's dilemma game with third party punishment, we find groups punish more when the penalty embeds … deterrence than when it can only be retributive. In contrast, individual third parties' punishment decisions do not vary on …

Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we … systematically vary the combination of existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to what …

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …