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 …

dilemma in which self-interest should produce a sub-optimal outcome absent sanctions for non-cooperation. We then test …

dilemma in which self-interest should produce a sub-optimal outcome absent sanctions for non-cooperation. We then test …

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 …

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 …

Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for … detrimental effects. In a public goods game, privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation in relation to a baseline …

Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive underpinnings of … cooperative decision-making. Does cooperation require deliberate self-restraint? Or is spontaneous prosociality reined in by … calculating self-interest? Here we present a theory of why (and for whom) intuition favors cooperation: cooperation is typically …