Direct and indirect punishment among strangers in the field

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 15924-15927

  Balafoutas, Loukas ^a   Nikiforakis, Nikos ^b   Rockenbach, Bettina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Field experiment; Indirect reciprocity; Punishment; Social norms

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OFFENDER; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; AGGRESSION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUNISHMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84909609608     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413170111     Document Type: Article

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