identify individual punishment patterns and link them with individual cooperation patterns. Classifying N = 628 subjects along … these two dimensions documents that cooperation and punishment patterns are intuitively aligned for most individuals … are more crucial for achieving cooperation than conditional cooperators. Incorporating information on punishment types …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation … cooperation with punishment which leads to a decrease in conditional cooperation. The power to punish means more responsibility … change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish …

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish … inclinations. The third pillar are sanctions meted out to anyone who does not cooperate; ideally punishment can work as a mere …

reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also … reciprocate others' behavior, yet direct and indirect reciprocity do not increase overall cooperation rates. We also examine the …

and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … cooperation in a repeated prisoner’s dilemma game. We find that third-party punishment exhibits a strikingly positive effect on … cooperation rates by doubling them in comparison to a control condition. It promotes cooperative behavior even before punishment …

-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …

mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy …Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …