Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5978, 2010, Pages 617-620

  Boyd, Robert ^a,b   Gintis, Herbert ^b,c,d   Bowles, Samuel ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MUTUALISM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; COORDINATION; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EGO; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77951872870     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1183665     Document Type: Article

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31. We thank the Behavioral Sciences Program of the Santa Fe Institute, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Science Foundation, and the University of Siena for research support. The authors declare no competing interests.