engage in punishment. Analyzing the interplay between types in an additional experiment, we show that pro-social punishers … punishment as well as their relative importance for mitigating social dilemmas. Using a novel strategy-method approach we … identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along …

Altruistic punishment is often thought to be a major enforcement mechanism of social norms. I present experimental … results from a modified version of the dictator game with third-party punishment, in which third parties can remain ignorant … initial ignorance. Remaining ignorant and choosing not to punish is not inappropriate. As a result, altruistic punishment is …