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Punishment, Cooperation, and Cheater Detection in 'Noisy' Social Exchange

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dc.contributor.author Bornstein, Gary
dc.contributor.author Weisel, Ori
dc.date.accessioned 2011-01-14T21:40:33Z
dc.date.available 2011-01-14T21:40:33Z
dc.date.issued 2010 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6818
dc.description.abstract "Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish non-cooperators or cheaters. The experimental evidence comes from public goods games in which group members are fully informed about the behavior of all others and cheating occurs in full view. We demonstrate that under more realistic information conditions, where cheating is less obvious, punishment is much less effective in enforcing cooperation. Evidently, the explanatory power of punishment is constrained by the visibility of cheating." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject cooperation en_US
dc.subject reciprocity en_US
dc.subject public goods and bads en_US
dc.subject game theory en_US
dc.title Punishment, Cooperation, and Cheater Detection in 'Noisy' Social Exchange en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Theory en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Games en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 1 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 18-33 en_US


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