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Antisocial Punishment Across Societies

Journal
Science
ISSN
0036-8075
ISSN-Digital
1095-9203
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2008-03-07
Author(s)
Herrmann, Benedikt
Thoeni, Christian
Gächter, Simon
DOI
10.1126/science.1153808
Abstract
We document the widespread existence of antisocial punishment, that is, the sanctioning of people who behave prosocially. Our evidence comes from public goods experiments that we conducted in 16 comparable participant pools around the world. However, there is a huge cross-societal variation. Some participant pools punished the high contributors as much as they punished the low contributors, whereas in others people only punished low contributors. In some participant pools, antisocial punishment was strong enough to remove the cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. We also show that weak norms of civic cooperation and the weakness of the rule of law in a country are significant predictors of antisocial punishment. Our results show that punishment opportunities are socially beneficial only if complemented by strong social norms of cooperation
Language
English
Keywords
cooperation
experiments
fairness
punishment
sociology
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
AAAS, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
Publisher place
Washington, DC
Volume
319
Number
5868
Start page
1362
End page
1367
Pages
6
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/78586
Subject(s)

economics

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SEW - Swiss Institute...

Eprints ID
43857
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