punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment … environments including schools, companies, markets and courts. -- punishment ; cooperation ; public goods game ; social norms …

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although …

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 …