anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group members themselves … individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that individuals may be willing to … delegate the punishment to a central, external authority. The key questions to answered are, whether individuals are willing …

decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment …

behavior. I show that for a large class of parameters cooperation will emerge if the population is large; if the population is … population, the less likely cooperation will be. <BR><BR> …

significant effect on the probability of punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. We explain this last result …-making experiment preceding the take game. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much …) Irritation and contempt drive punishment behavior. (3) There are discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either …

help of a survey and also observe actual agreements in a bargaining experiment with real money at stake. We find that the …

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means of direct coordination or the enforcement of re … if mutually connected individuals with sufficient combined punishment potential have signalled their willingness to form …