in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction … designs, however, is the fact that real-world human punishment—the administration of justice—is intrinsically noisy. Here we … show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise …