Punishment is Organized around Principles of Communicative Inference
Humans use punishment to influence each other's behavior. Many current theories presume that this operates as a simple form of incentive. In contrast, we show that people infer the communicative intent behind punishment, which can sometimes diverge sharply from its immediate incentive value. In...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier B.V.
2021
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