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Punishment in the public goods game is evaluated negatively irrespective of non-cooperators’ motivation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
The evolution of human cooperation toward strangers remains puzzling. While the punishment of non-cooperators is a possible explanation, whether punishments can help cooperation evolve depends on how people evaluate punishers.
Yang Li, Nobuhiro Mifune
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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Sustainability Label Effectiveness Through Logo Design Modification: An Analysis of the EU Green Leaf Logo

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann, Ching‐Hua Yeh, Matthew Gorton, Barbara Tocco, Áron Török   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Oil above water" : economic interdependence and third-party intervention [PDF]

, 2015
We explore economic incentives for third parties to intervene in ongoing internal wars. We develop a three-party model of the decision to intervene in conflict that highlights the role of the economic benefits accruing from the intervention and the ...
Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede, Bove, Vincenzo, Sekeris, Petros G., Sekeris, Petros G, Gleditsch, Kristian S, Sekeris, Petros   +5 more
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Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone, Chad Fiechter, Zanliang Meng, James Lowenberg‐DeBoer, Bruce Erickson, Jay Akridge   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Helping or punishing strangers: Neural correlates of altruistic decisions as third-party and of its relation to empathic concern

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015
Social norms are a cornerstone of human society. When social norms are violated (e.g. fairness) people can either help the victim or punish the violator in order to restore justice. Recent research has shown that empathic concern influences this decision
Yang eHu, Sabrina eStrang, Sabrina eStrang, Bernd eWeber, Bernd eWeber   +4 more
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Children’s Group Bias in Evaluating other’s Third-party Punishment [PDF]

, 2020
35 pagesPast studies have shown that people favor their own group members when they themselves are the third-party punisher. But in real life, most people do not have adequate power to enforce justice by themselves.
MA, YUNRU
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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional endogeneity and third-party punishment in social dilemmas [PDF]

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019
Abstract This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in social dilemmas. We allow individuals to vote on the introduction of third-party-administered sanctions, and compare situations in which the adoption of this institution is endogenously decided via majority voting to ...
Isabel Marcin, Pedro Robalo, Franziska Tausch   +2 more
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Evidence for third-party mediation but not punishment in Mentawai justice

Nature Human Behaviour, 2021
Researchers argue that third parties help sustain human cooperation, yet how they contribute remains unclear, especially in small-scale, politically decentralized societies. Studying justice among Mentawai horticulturalists in Indonesia, we examined evidence for punishment and mediation by third parties. Across a sample of 444 transgressions we find no
Manvir Singh, Zachary H. Garfield
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