Norms of cooperation and punishment differ across societies, but also within a single society. In an experiment with … two subject pools sharing the same geographical and cultural origins, we show that opportunities for peer punishment … increase cooperation among students but not in the general population. In previous studies, punishment magnified the …

a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … shedding light upon the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment mechanisms. We show that the separate …

to be both consistent across decisions and relatively stable over time. -- Experiment ; public-good ; punishment ; social …Carpenter and Matthews (2009) examine the cooperation norms determining people's punishment behavior in a social … punishment. Using multiple punishment stages and self-contained episodes of interaction, we disentangle the effects of …