Co-operative punishment cements social cohesion

JASSS

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Jaffe, Klaus ^a   Zaballa, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cohesion; Cooperation; Evolution; Prosocial; Punishment; Retribution; Social

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954996650     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1568     Document Type: Article

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