specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment …We introduce the possibility of direct punishment by specialized enforcers into a model of community enforcement … following deviations by regular agent is that such actions, by reducing future cooperation, would decrease the amount of …

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 …

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 …

Most of the literature on the evolution of human pro-sociality looks at reasons why evolution made us not play the Nash … prosocial behaviour, we should look at reasons why evolution made us not play the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in sequential …

interact, plays however a vital role in the evolution of conflicts. By relating the individual pay-off perceptions for each …