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Kurzban, Robert; DeScioli, Peter - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 15 (2013) 3, pp. 269-279

about these welfare gains is not logically licensed. In short, labeling punishment “altruistic” because it has the effect of … punishment can help solve collective action problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 …

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Conditional punishment

Kamei, Kenju - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 2, pp. 199-202

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

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Crime, Punishment, and Evolution in an Adversarial Game

McBride, Michael; Kendall, Ryan; Short, Martin B.; … - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2012

We examine the game theoretic properties of a model of crime first introduced by Short, Brantingham, and D … the positive externality in punishing crime in the SBD game converts the adversarial setting from a social dilemma to a …

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Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - In: Economics Letters 130 (2015) C, pp. 43-46

punishment in a public goods experiment. We find significantly higher cooperation levels outside the festival among less …

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Social norms and human cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining their content, and the cognitive and...

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Peer pressure and inequity aversion in the Japanese firm

Staffiero, Gianandrea - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2006

We present an explanation of the high frequency of team production and high level of peer monitoring found in Japanese firms, in terms of a simple and empirically grounded variation in individual utility functions. We argue that Japanese agents are generally characterized by a higher degree,...

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Sympathy and Punishment: Evolution of Cooperation in Public Goods Game

Ye, Hang; Tan, Fei; Ding, Mei; Jia, Yongmin; Chen, Yefeng - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 14 (2011) 4, pp. 20-20

An important way to maintain human cooperation is punishing defection. However, since punishment is costly, how can it … violation of causality, since the evolution of punishment is prior to the one of cooperation behaviour in evolutionary dynamics …-evolution of sympathy, punishment and cooperation. According to classical philosophy literature, sympathy is a key factor in …

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With God We Trust: Religion, Trust and Cooperation in Large-Scale Societies

Gagnon, Julien - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

theoretic model showing how endogenous emotion-based punishment can sustain ull cooperation when interactions are not repeated …

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Functional unpleasantness: the evolutionary logic of righteous resentment

Heller, William; Sieberg, K. - In: Public Choice 135 (2008) 3, pp. 399-413

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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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