Punish and Voice: Punishment Enhances Cooperation when Combined with Norm-Signalling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Andrighetto, Giulia ^a,b   Brandts, Jordi ^c   Conte, Rosaria ^a   Sabater Mir, Jordi ^d   Solaz, Hector ^e   Villatoro, Daniel ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^e NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; SIMULATION; VOICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHICAL THEORY; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PUNISHMENT; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878948491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064941     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Ostrom E (1990) Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
2. Boehm C (1999) Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
3. Conte R, Castelfranchi C (1995) Cognitive and Social Action. London: UCL Press.
4. Bicchieri C (2006) The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Crawford S, Ostrom E, (1995) A Grammar of Institutions. American Political Science Review 89(3): 582-600.
6. Fehr E, Gächter S, (2002) Altruistic Punishment in Humans. Nature 415: 137-40.
7. Ostrom E, Walker J, Gardner R, (1992) Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance is Possible. Am. Pol Sci Rev 86: 404-417.
8. Sigmund K, (2007) Punish or Perish? Retaliation and Collaboration among Humans. Trends Ecol Evol 22: 593-600.
9. Fehr E, Fischbacher U, (2004) Third Party Punishment and Social Norms. Evolution and Human Behavior 25: 63-87.
10. Noussair C, Tucker S, (2005) Combining Monetary and Social Sanctions to Promote Cooperation. Economic Inquiry 43: 649-660.
11. Masclet D, Noussair C, Tucker S, Villeval M-C, (2003) Monetary and Non-Monetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism. American Economic Review 93: 366-380.
12. Xiao E, Houser D, (2005) Emotion Expression in Human Punishment Behavior. PNAS 102: 7398-7401.
13. Galbiati R, Vertova P, (2008) Obligations and Cooperative Behavior in Public Good Games. Games and Economic Behavior 64: 146-70.
14. Janssen M A, Holahan R, Lee A, Ostrom E, (2010) Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems. Science 328: 613-617.
15. Fehr E, Rockenbach B, (2003) Detrimental Effects of Sanctions on Human Altruism. Nature 422: 137-140.
16. Herrmann B, Thoni C, Gächter S, (2008) Antisocial Punishment across Societies. Science 319(7): 1362-67.
17. Egas M, Riedl A, (2008) The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Maintenance of Cooperation. Proc R Soc Lond B 275: 871-878.
18. Dreber A, Rand D G, Fudenberg D, Nowak M A, (2008) Winners don't Punish. Nature 452: 348-351.
19. Chudek M, Henrich J, (2011) Culture-Gene Goevolution, Norm-Psychology and the Emergence of Human Prosociality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15: 218-226.
20. Sripada C, Stich S (2006) A Framework for the Psychology of Norms. In: Carruthers P, Laurence S, Stich S, editors. The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 280-301.
21. Andrighetto G, Villatoro D (2011) Beyond the Carrot and Stick Approach to Enforcement: An Agent-Based Model. In B. Kokinov B, Karmiloff-Smith A, Nersessian N J, editors European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. Sofia: New Bulgarian University Press.
22. Xiao E, Houser D, (2011) Punish in Public. Journal of Public Economics 95: 1006-1017.
23. Cialdini RB, Kallgren CA, Reno RR, (1990) A Focus Theory of Normative Conduct: a Theoretical Refinement and Reevaluation of the Role of Norms in Human Behavior. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 24: 201-234.
24. Gächter S, Renner E, Sefton M, (2008) The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment. Science 322: 1510-1510.
25. Carpenter J, Daniere A, Takahashi L, (2004) Cooperation, Trust and Social Capital in Southeast Asian Urban Slums. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55: 533-551.
26. Carpenter J, Seki E, (2011) Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay. Economic Inquiry 49(2): 612-630.
27. Brandts J, Saijo T, Schram A, (2004) How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite, Cooperation and Errors in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms. Public Choice 119: 381-424.
28. Sutton R, Barto A (1998) Reinforcement Learning: An introduction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
29. Fischbacher U, Gächter S, (2010) Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods. American Economic Review 100(1): 541-556.
30. Guala F, (2012) Reciprocity: Weak or Strong? What Punishment Experiments Do (and Do Not) Demonstrate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35: 1-59.
31. Boyd R, Gintis H, Bowles S, (2010) Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate when Rare. Science 328: 617-620.
32. Fischbacher U, (2007) Z-Tree: Zurich Toolbox for Ready-Made Economic Experiments. Experimental Economics10: 171-178.