| Title |
God’s punishment and public goods
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Human Nature, December 2005
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| DOI | 10.1007/s12110-005-1017-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dominic D. P. Johnson |
| Abstract |
Cooperation towards public goods relies on credible threats of punishment to deter cheats. However, punishing is costly, so it remains unclear who incurred the costs of enforcement in our evolutionary past. Theoretical work suggests that human cooperation may be promoted if people believe in supernatural punishment for moral transgressions. This theory is supported by new work in cognitive psychology and by anecdotal ethnographic evidence, but formal quantitative tests remain to be done. Using data from 186 societies around the globe, I test whether the likelihood of supernatural punishment-indexed by the importance of moralizing "high gods"-is associated with cooperation. |
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| Japan | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 81 | 93% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 25% |
| Researcher | 17 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 14 | 16% |
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| Psychology | 33 | 38% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 10% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 18 | 21% |
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