provide direct evidence on the role punishment plays in communicating norms. Importantly, this allows us to provide …Punishment typically involves depriving violators of resources they own such as money or labor. These resources can … become revenue for authorities and thus motivate profit seeking punishment. In this paper, we design a novel experiment to …

punishment was frequently observed, in line with previous studies. Despite the prevalence of punishment, having one third party … punisher in a group did not make one's defection materially unbeneficial because of the weak punishment intensity observed … party punishment was sufficiently strong to transform the dilemma's incentive structure into a coordination game, through …

of social norms and their interplay with weak punishment in the context of a trust game. Across six conditions, we …Research examining the effect of weak punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to … systematically vary the combination of the existence of weak punishment and norm information. Norm information may refer either to …

the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment. Often people are presented with incomplete norm …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy by shedding light upon …

Considerable experimental evidence shows that although costly peer-punishment enhances cooperation in repeated public …-good games, heavy punishment in early rounds leads to average period payoffs below the non-cooperative equilibrium benchmark. In … fall prey to a poverty trap or, to avoid this, abstain from punishment altogether. We show that neither is the case …