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Antisocial punishment in two social dilemmas

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Title
Antisocial punishment in two social dilemmas
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, April 2015
DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00107
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Enrique Fatas, Guillermo Mateu

Abstract

The effect of sanctions on cooperation depends on social and cultural norms. While free riding is kept at bay by altruistic punishment in certain cultures, antisocial punishment carried out by free riders pushes back cooperation in others. In this paper we analyze sanctions in both a standard public goods game with a linear production function and an otherwise identical social dilemma in which the minimum contribution determines the group outcome. Experiments were run in a culture with traditionally high antisocial punishment (Southern Europe). We replicate the detrimental effect of antisocial sanctions on cooperation in the linear case. However, we find that punishment is still widely effective when actions are complementary: the provision of the public good significantly and substantially increases with sanctions, participants punish significantly less and sanctions radically transform conditional cooperation patterns to generate significant welfare gains.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 40 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 20%
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Student > Postgraduate 4 10%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 10 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 34%
Psychology 9 22%
Social Sciences 5 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Philosophy 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 10 24%
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