Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2017 - This version: November 13, 2017
a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … shedding light upon the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment mechanisms. We show that the separate …