The United States Supreme Court has considered the question of whether a judge or a jury must make the findings necessary to support imposition of the death penalty in several notable cases, including Spaziano v. Florida (1984), Hildwin v. Florida (1989), and Ring v. Arizona (2002). In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court revisited the subject in Hurst v. Florida Florida Statute § 921.141 allows the ju...

In a task analogous to excessive drinking behavior, 30 alcoholics and 30 social drinkers trained on a 100% rewarded button-pressing response received one of three extinction conditions: nonreward, simultaneous reward-punishment, and punishment only. The 5s could discontinue responding at any time during the extinction phase. Alcoholics showed significantly greater resistance to extinction in th...

Punishment promotes contributions to public goods, but recent evidence suggests that its effectiveness varies across societies. Prior theorizing suggests that cross-societal differences in trust play a key role in determining the effectiveness of punishment, as a form of social norm enforcement, to promote cooperation. One line of reasoning is that punishment promotes cooperation in low-trust s...

Each of eight rats was located in the experimental chamber mounted with two levers. Lever-pressing to either of the two was maintained by a schedule of food. After that, a punishment schedule of electric shocks was added. Neither the reinforcement nor the punishment schedule was programmed on the other lever, i.e. the non-reinforced alternative. The effect of reinforcement, and the joint effect...

the will of international community to implement justice and to put an end to the impunity for the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and the genocide lead to the establishment of international criminal court (icc). the icc is expected to prosecute and punish international criminals in order to prevent committing such crimes in the future. following the creation of the court in...

a r t i c l e i n f o The study aimed to investigate the sex differences in the reciprocal relations between parental corporal punishment and child internalizing problem behavior in China. Four hundred fifty-four Chinese elementary school-age children completed measures of their parental corporal punishment toward them and their own internalizing problem behavior at two time points, 6 months ap...

The behavioral strategy option of project-based organizations directly influences the quality of construction project. Based on the behavioral game model for the owner, supervision unit and contractor, and analysis of mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for the model, under the analysis framework that project-based organizations’ bounded rationality, this paper treats the supervision unit and contr...

Punishment may deter antisocial behavior. Yet to punish is costly, and the costs often do not offset the gains that are due to elevated levels of cooperation. However, the effectiveness of punishment depends not only on how costly it is, but also on the circumstances defining the social dilemma. Using the snowdrift game as the basis, we have conducted a series of economic experiments to determi...

Some readers will view the article by Lerman and Vorndran as controversial. It is a review of existing basic and applied research on punishment and a call for additional research on punishment. The thesis of my commentary is that the paper should not be viewed as controversial. Punishment happens. To ignore a natural phenomenon and its implications for a technology of behavior is akin to ignori...

The most famous element in Bentham’s theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared with the tone that Jeremy Bentham set, o...