anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of … through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions …, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free riders. However, these types of emotions also trigger retaliatory …

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of … through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions …, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free riders. However, these types of emotions also trigger retaliatory …

primarily interested in how emotions influenceresponder behavior. Our findings are the following. (1) A higher take … happiness. Sincenegative emotions are experienced as painful, there is direct hedonicimpact. (2) Irritation and contempt drive … punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous "jumps" in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy …

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how … fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role … behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find …

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 …

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 …

punished. As a consequence, the existence of an opportunity for costly punishment causes a large increase in cooperation levels … selfishness, there should be no cooperation at all. We also show that free riding causes strong negative emotions among …This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide …

to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment … systems exist that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …

to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment … preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized …