Dishonesty invites costly third-party punishment [PDF]
Abstract Third-party punishment for norm violators is an evolvable enforcer of social norms. The present study, involving two experiments, examined whether violations of honesty norms would induce costly third-party punishments. In both experiments, participants in the third-party role observed a protocol of the trust game, in which the trustee ...
Yohsuke Ohtsubo +3 more
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Outcomes and intentions in children's, adolescents', and adults' second- and third-party punishment behavior. [PDF]
Theories of morality maintain that punishment supports the emergence and maintenance of moral behavior. This study investigated developmental differences in the role of outcomes and the violator's intentions in second-party punishment (where punishers ...
Chu, MT, Gummerum, M
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Social influence on third-party punishment: An experiment [PDF]
Abstract We study the effect of social influence on agents’ decisions to engage in costly decentralized third-party punishment. In a laboratory experiment, participants play a modified Dictator game with third-party punishment and we elicit punishment decisions both in isolation and after providing information about peers’ average punishment. Results
Fabbri, Marco, Carbonara, Emanuela
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Third-party punishment has recently received attention as an explanation for human altruism. Feelings of anger in response to norm violations are assumed to motivate third-party sanctions, yet there is only sparse and indirect support for this idea.
Rob M. A. Nelissen, Marcel Zeelenberg
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The intergroup bias in third-party fairness maintenance includes two components: ingroup love and outgroup hate. Previous studies revealed that intergroup bias could be alleviated by high social identity complexity.
Zhuang Li, Gengdan Hu, Qiangqiang Li
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The Dark Side of Altruistic Third-Party Punishment [PDF]
This article experimentally studies punishment from unaffected third parties in ten different games. The authors show that third-party punishment exhibits several features that are arguably undesirable. First, third parties punish strongly a decider if she chooses a socially efficient or a Pareto efficient allocation and becomes the richest party as a
López Pérez, Raúl +1 more
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Creating sanctioning norms in the lab: the influence of descriptive norms in third-party punishment
Third-party punishment is a form of peer-to-peer sanctioning that is influenced by descriptive norms. The present study aims to investigate how aggregate peer punishment and the presence of a free rider who never punishes influences the formation of ...
Giannis Lois, Michèle Wessa
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Non-Strategic Punishment when Monitoring is Costly: Experimental Evidence on Differences between Second and Third Party Behavior [PDF]
This paper studies monitoring and punishment behavior by second and third parties in a cooperation experiment with endogenous information structures: Players are uninformed whether the target player cooperated or defected at the cooperation stage, but ...
Goeschl, Timo, Jarke, Johannes
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Group bias under uncertain environment: A perspective of third-party punishment
Third-party punishment (TPP) effectively promotes social cooperation and maintains social norms in which equity plays a decisive role. When third-party and players are affiliated with different groups, there are two distinct phenomena—in-group favoritism
Haibo Yang +3 more
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To help or punish in the face of unfairness: men and women prefer mutually-beneficial strategies over punishment in a sexual selection context [PDF]
Consistent with a sexual selection account of cooperation, based on female choice, men, in romantic contexts, in general display mutually-beneficial behaviour and women choose men who do so.
Eamonn Ferguson +5 more
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