Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although … 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 …

Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate … heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidental but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …

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 …Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process …

social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the … key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer …

-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that … alleviate any economic and social pressures. …

pressure can increase rates of punishment. We discuss our results with respect to findings in the lab on cognitive models of … dual-processing and the origins of human cooperation. …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …

prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic …