Punish and voice: punishment enhances cooperation when combined with norm-signalling.

Material punishment has been suggested to play a key role in sustaining human cooperation. Experimental findings, however, show that inflicting mere material costs does not always increase cooperation and may even have detrimental effects. Indeed, ethnographic evidence suggests that the most typical...

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Main Authors: Giulia Andrighetto, Jordi Brandts, Rosaria Conte, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Hector Solaz, Daniel Villatoro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3680389?pdf=render