Norms of Punishment: Experiments With Students and the General Population

Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca

doi:10.1111/ecin.12187

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“…In line with the findings of Bortolotti et al [69], who reported considerable antisocial punishment behavior among Italian subjects, our behavioral results showed that player C punished fair behavior in the out-group condition more often when players A and B, both belonged to the out-group, as compared to when player A belonged to the out-group and player B to the in-group. These results might suggest a form of protection across in-group members, another possible explanation is that our task and experimental procedure may have evoked this competitive behavior in-group setting.…”

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Group Membership Modulates the Neural Circuitry Underlying Third Party Punishment

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This research aims to explore the neural correlates involved in altruistic punishment, parochial altruism and anti-social punishment, using the Third-Party Punishment (TPP) game. In particular, this study considered these punishment behaviors in in-group vs. out-group game settings, to compare how people behave with members of their own national group and with members of another national group. The results showed that participants act altruistically to protect in-group members. This study indicates that norm violation in in-group (but not in out-group) settings results in increased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex and temporo-parietal junction, brain regions involved in the mentalizing network, as the third-party attempts to understand or justify in-group members’ behavior. Finally, exploratory analysis during anti-social punishment behavior showed brain activation recruitment of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area associated with altered regulation of emotions.

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“…This result is consistent with similar findings in the literature (for a recent review and a methodological discussion see, e.g., [39]). For instance, using a public good game, Gächter and Herrmann [40] show that students are less prosocial than rural and urban citizens, and Cardenas [41] shows that they extract more resources than rural villagers in a common pool resources experiment.…”

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Students, Temporary Workers and Co-Op Workers: An Experimental Investigation on Social Preferences

Dragone

Galeotti

Orsini

2015

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Abstract:We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three pools of subjects: Undergraduate students, temporary workers and permanent workers. We find that students are more selfish and contribute less than workers. Temporary and permanent contract workers have similar other-regarding preferences and display analogous contribution patterns in an anonymous Public Good Game.

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“…In both cases, cooperation decreases over time in these fixed partner experiments without punishment. With punishment, Bortolotti, Casari, and Pancotto () show that cooperation stays flat in the general population sample but increases slightly among students because students more actively used punishments. Our study contributes to the literature of finitely repeated games with nonstudent subjects by adding evidence on comparative experimental play by Mongolian small business owners versus Mongolian university students.…”

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An Honest Day's Pay: Cooperation among Entrepreneurs vs. Students, and Linkages to Real‐World Business Success

Batsaikhan

Putterman

2019

Southern Economic Journal

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The importance of cooperative behavior in business environments has been theorized in the field of management. However, measuring cooperation quantitatively is often challenging. We take advantage of experimental methods to overcome this issue. Particularly, we study the decisions that small‐scale entrepreneurs in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, make in a laboratory property rights dilemma experiment, comparing these to the decisions of student counterparts in the same and other countries, and looking for correlations between lab decisions and success in real‐world business sales. We find that Mongolian entrepreneurs generally achieve much higher cooperation levels and hence higher experimental earnings than Mongolian students. Also, among individual participants, producing and desisting from theft in the lab setting is correlated at the 1% level with real‐world business sales. Our findings align with the view that cooperative impulses or abidance of social norms can be an advantage in business relationships.

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Norms of Punishment: Experiments With Students and the General Population

Cited by 18 publications

References 59 publications

Group Membership Modulates the Neural Circuitry Underlying Third Party Punishment

Group Membership Modulates the Neural Circuitry Underlying Third Party Punishment

Students, Temporary Workers and Co-Op Workers: An Experimental Investigation on Social Preferences

An Honest Day's Pay: Cooperation among Entrepreneurs vs. Students, and Linkages to Real‐World Business Success

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