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 … highlight punishments' failures in this regard. These studies ignore punishments' social effects, and particularly its role in …

cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as well as the importance … of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, <I>KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft</I>, 90, 1 …, and whether they can increase the cooperation level of individuals in the group. …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the … theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish … information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the …

The so-called problem of the spontaneous cooperation has been substantially resolved through a mix of biology and …

support near e¡Ë cient levels of contributions to a public good. Cooperation may also be supported if altruistic individuals … cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … contribution costs and punishment costs. The range over which altruism inhibits cooperation and reduces material payo¢´s is greater …