Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game … punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional …

mechanisms to the dilemma in recent decades. Although punishment is thought to be a key mechanism, evolutionary game theory has … revealed that the simplest form of punishment called peer punishment is useless to solve the dilemma, since peer punishment … itself is costly. In the literature, more complex types of punishment, such as pool punishment or institutional punishment …

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise …Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across … social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction …

cooperative behavior include assortative matching in groups, group longevity, and punishment-based group norms. …

Peer punishment is widely considered a key mechanism supporting cooperation in human groups. Although much research … punish their partner conditional on either the level of cooperation or the level of punishment displayed by others who … previously interacted in the same setting. While many participants punish independently of levels of cooperation or punishment, a …

theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the …

cooperation flourish, and withholding punishment makes cooperation collapse. In less cooperative social environments, where … antisocial punishment has been detected, punishment was detrimental to cooperation. The success of punishment in enhancing … punishing them, whereas in environments in which punishment diminished cooperation, antisocial punishment was explained as …