altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …

laboratory experiment, subjects play a public good game with punishment in which feedback on actual contributions is obscured …

and privileged groups with and without decentralized punishment. We find that compared to normal groups, privileged groups … are relatively ineffective in using costly sanctions to increase everyone's contributions. Punishment is less targeted …

can be attributed to responders’ provision of a public good: Punishment creates a group reputation for being â … treatment with non-informed proposers, the hypothesis of responder’s enjoyment of overt punishment is not supported. Copyright …

and privileged groups with and without decentralized punishment. We find that compared to normal groups, privileged groups … are relatively ineffective in using costly sanctions to increase everyone's contributions. Punishment is less targeted …

between members of a group. However, often we can not allow for punishment and exclude the possibility of counter-punishment … occurring. We design a public goods experiment, where we allow for both punishment and counter-punishment. We find that in both … threat of counter-punishment. Participants squander their endowment in costly confrontations leading to a relative payoff …

embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in lower rather than higher levels of … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …

in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment players within …