This paper investigates whether altruistic punishment when cooperation norms are violated is sensitive to gender … effects. Our framework is a one-shot social dilemma game with third-party punishment in which subjects are informed of the … others' gender within their group. This allows us to test whether third-party punishment depends on the punisher's as well as …

cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral … cooperation for pairs of market-winners, market-losers and mixed pairs and study both the cases where interaction in the social … experience has adverse effects on the efficiency of cooperation on both market-winner and market-loser pairs. In market …

from one continuation probability to the other. When switching from large to small, transient higher levels of cooperation … are observed in the early games of the small continuation set. Conversely, when switching from small to large, cooperation … probabilities. These asymmetries suggest a bias in favor of cooperation. Finally, we examine the link between altruism and RPD play …

interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus … Allocation Game where cooperation of four agents is needed to produce surplus, but only two have the power to allocate it among … distributors and receivers. While behavior at the group level is diverse for surplus allocation and amount of cooperation …

punishment more strongly when the sanctioning institution is endogenously chosen. As a result, a given cooperation level can be … across the two settings as the stricter punishment implemented in the exogenous one sustains high cooperation as subjects …This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in …

punishment more strongly when the sanctioning institution is endogenously chosen. As a result, a given cooperation level can be … across the two settings as the stricter punishment implemented in the exogenous one sustains high cooperation as subjects …This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in …

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …

punishment opportunities. One important challenge for the mechanism is imperfect information about cooperative behavior. It has … been shown that imperfect information increases misdirected punishment and thereby hampers the efficacy of the punishment … subjects choose to monitor either perfectly or not at all. Little punishment takes place with imperfect information. The large …

Punishment has been shown to be an effective reinforcement mechanism. Intentional or not, punishment will likely …: the voluntary contributions mechanism. We find that spillovers occur when others observe punishment outside their own … social dilemma. However, the specific effect of these spillovers depends on one’s personal punishment history which …

cooperation and strategies, such as punishment and gossip, to promote cooperation in social dilemmas. In two studies involving … cooperation or the use of punishment and gossip to promote cooperation. We discuss the implications of these findings for …Previous research on cooperation has primarily focused on egalitarian interactions, overlooking a fundamental feature …