The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment
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- 5 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 322 (5907), 1510
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1164744
Abstract
Experiments have shown that punishment enhances socially beneficial cooperation but that the costs of punishment outweigh the gains from cooperation. This challenges evolutionary models of altruistic cooperation and punishment, which predict that punishment will be beneficial. We compared 10- and 50-period cooperation experiments. With the longer time horizon, punishment is unambiguously beneficial.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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