Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … rates no lower than small groups because punishment does not fall appreciably in large groups. However, hindrances to …

willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group …

punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …

Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment … are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and …

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …

hostility between groups. Our experiment provides the first evidence without the confounding effect of self-selection into … Army. We conduct choice experiments - simultaneous prisoner’s dilemma games, with and without third-party punishment - in … not lead to hostility, in the sense of vindictive punishment of outsiders, but does affect norm enforcement, enhancing …

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …

punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …

in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose between a community with and an alternative without punishment … opportunities. Within each community a social dilemma game is played. While the community with punishment grows over time and fully …