Strengths of social ties modulate brain computations for third-party punishment. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Costly punishment of social norm transgressors by third-parties has been considered as a decisive stage in the evolution of human cooperation. An important facet of social relationship knowledge concerns the strength of the social ties between ...
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The Influence of Social Relationships on Third-Party Punishment: The Roles of Relationship Type Congruence and Threat Perception. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Third-party punishment involves bystanders voluntarily incurring costs to punish norm violators, thereby maintaining social norms and cooperation. While prior research shows reduced punishment when the bystander and violator are friends, less is known ...
Xiang Z, Zhu Y, Zhang Q, Chen E, Wu X.
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Third-party punishment and social norms [PDF]
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2004 "We examine the characteristics and the relative strength of third party sanctions in a series of experiments. We hypothesize that egalitarian distribution norms and cooperation norms apply in our experiments, and that third parties, whose economic payoff is unaffected by the norm violation, may be willing to enforce these norms although the ...
Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher
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Time Pressure Weakens Social Norm Maintenance in Third-Party Punishment. [PDF]
Brain Sci, 2023 Decision-making under time pressure may better reflect an individual’s response preference, but few studies have examined whether individuals choose to be more selfish or altruistic in a scenario where third-party punishment is essential for maintaining ...
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Profitable third-party punishment destabilizes cooperation. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AThird-party punishment is theorized by some scholars to be essential to the evolution of large-scale cooperation, but empirically, it often fails to bring about its desired effects. Here, we suggest that third-party punishment destabilizes cooperation when third parties have profit motives to punish. Across nine economic games and judgment experiments (
Alam R, Rai TS.
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The source of punishment matters: Third-party punishment restrains observers from selfish behaviors better than does second-party punishment by shaping norm perceptions. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Punishment aims to deter individuals' selfish behaviors, but it can occasionally backfire. Some scholars have proposed promoting prosocial behaviors using punishment that communicates positive social norms because it provides additional motivation ...
Chen H, Zeng Z, Ma J.
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No third-party punishment in chimpanzees. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012 Punishment can help maintain cooperation by deterring free-riding and cheating. Of particular importance in large-scale human societies is third-party punishment in which individuals punish a transgressor or norm violator even when they themselves are not affected.
Riedl K, Jensen K, Call J, Tomasello M.
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To Blame or Not? Modulating Third-Party Punishment with the Framing Effect. [PDF]
Neurosci Bull, 2022 People as third-party observers, without direct self-interest, may punish norm violators to maintain social norms. However, third-party judgment and the follow-up punishment might be susceptible to the way we frame (i.e., verbally describe) a norm violation.
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Cultural Individualism-Collectivism and Third-Party Punishment and Compensation. [PDF]
Psych JABSTRACT This study examined how culture shapes third‐party punishment and compensation in the harm domain using realistic judicial scenarios. Chinese participants showed greater engagement in both forms than American participants, with individualism–collectivism values mediating these societal differences.
Ye Y, Wang ZJ.
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Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing. [PDF]
Commun PsycholThird-party punishment of unfairness shows striking cross-societal variation in adults, yet we know little about where and when in development this variation starts to emerge.
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