Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … repeated minimum effort coordination game. While most groups first experience inefficient coordination, the efficiency … increases substantially after introducing an ex post sanctioning possibility. Namely, subjects can assign punishment points to …

enforcement mechanisms of punishment and norms cannot achieve higher cooperation rates. In fact, conformity is significantly …, when cooperation is expensive we find that the combination of punishment and empirical information about others conformity …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead …

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy by shedding light upon … the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment. People are often presented with incomplete norm …

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 …

We consider a dynamic model of conformity that permits both a conformist and non-conformist equilibrium. We provide … conditions under which conformity can 'invade' a population. More precisely, starting from a non-conformist equilibrium, we show … that the conformity of an arbitrarily small proportion of the population can lead to the spread of conformism and the …

communication of trust maintains cooperation upon the removal of centralized (Study 1), thirdparty (Study 2), and peer punishment …An effective way to foster cooperation is to monitor behaviour and sanction freeriding. Yet, previous studies have … shown that cooperation quickly declines when sanctioning mechanisms are removed. We test if explicitly expressing trust in …

heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidentally but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …

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 …

heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidental but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …