In broad daylight : Full information and higher - order punishment opportunities promote cooperation

In Broad Daylight: Fuller Information and Higher-Order Punishment Opportunities Can Promote Cooperation

The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims about whether opportunities to engage in higher-order punishment (punishing punishment or failure to punish) help or undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. Varying treatments of a voluntary contributions experiment, we find that availability of higher-order punishment opportu...

Online Appendix for Kamei and Putterman , 2013 “ In Broad Daylight : Fuller Information and Higher - order Punishment Opportunities

Consensual punishment does not promote cooperation in the six-person prisoner's dilemma game with noisy public monitoring

We study the effects of different punishment institutions on cooperation in a six-person prisoner's dilemma game in which actors observe others' cooperation with some noise (i.e. imperfect public monitoring). Previous research has shown that peer punishment can sustain cooperation, if a certain proportion of group members punish defectors at a cost to themselves. However, in the presence of noi...

Cooperation in social dilemmas: free riding may be thwarted by second-order reward rather than by punishment.

Cooperation among nonrelatives can be puzzling because cooperation often involves incurring costs to confer benefits on unrelated others. Punishment of noncooperators can sustain otherwise fragile cooperation, but the provision of punishment suffers from a "second-order" free-riding problem because nonpunishers can free ride on the benefits from costly punishment provided by others. One suggest...

The evolution of antisocial punishment in optional public goods games.

Cooperation, where one individual incurs a cost to help another, is a fundamental building block of the natural world and human society. It has been suggested that costly punishment can promote the evolution of cooperation, with the threat of punishment deterring free-riders. Recent experiments, however, have revealed the existence of 'antisocial' punishment, where non-cooperators punish cooper...