2021
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/34tfn
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Decoupling altruistic punishment: immune punishers learn to not cooperate, but still punish hypocritically.

Abstract: Economic experiments, and evolutionary models, have suggested that human cooperation is sustained by altruistically motivated cooperators paying to punish non-cooperators. Consequently, punishment allows cooperators to happily match each other (conditionally cooperate), confident that they will not be exploited by non-cooperators. However, it is not clear that punishment is altruistically motivated, and previous experiments have confounded a fear of being punished with being surrounded by cooperators. Here, we… Show more

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