game with Third Party punishment, punishing less as well as tending to punish cooperation (almost as much) as defection …‐criminal population in the same geographical area on the other. We provide experimental evidence on cooperation and response to sanctions … by running Prisoner's Dilemma and Third Party Punishment games on three different pools of subjects; students, 'Ordinary …

controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral - she does … not benefit from contributions to the public good. Punishment is costly. Along with the punishment decisions the authority … writes justifications for her decisions. In the Baseline, authorities are requested to justify punishment decisions, but the …

contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate 'dynamic economic linkages' between the two stages of our "modified …

contributions mechanism with punishment (VCMP). We eliminate ‘dynamic economic linkages’ between the two stages of our ‘modified …

We test whether humans are intuitively inclined to cooperate with or punish strangers using a natural field experiment … pressure can increase rates of punishment. We discuss our results with respect to findings in the lab on cognitive models of … dual-processing and the origins of human cooperation. …

pillar is internalised norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish … inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere …

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish … inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere …

We study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy …

This paper investigates how punishment promotes cooperation when the punishment enforcer is independent of its proposer …, cooperation is lower when the enforcement of punishment requires approval from an independent third party. Our data show that the … promoting cooperation when antisocial punishment proposals are rare …