Reward and punishment in social dilemmas / edited by Paul A.M. Van Lange, Bettina Rockenbach, Toshio Yamagishi.

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9780199300730
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HM716 .R49 2014

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When punishment supports cooperation : insights from voluntary contribution experiments / Louis Putterman — How (and when) reward and punishment promote cooperation : an interdependence theoretical perspective / Daniel Balliet and Paul A. M. van Lange — Regulating the regulation : norms about punishment / Pontus Strimling and Kimmo Eriksson — For the common good? The use of sanctions in social dilemmas / Eric van Dijk, Laetitia B. Mulder and Erik W. de Kwaadsteniet — Promoting cooperation : the distribution of reward and punishment power / Daniele Nosenzo and Martin R. Sefton — Broadening the motivation to cooperate : revisiting the role of sanctions in social dilemmas / Xiao-Ping Chen, Carolyn T. Dang, and Fong Keng-Highberger — Leadership, reward and punishment in sequential public goods experiments / Matthias Sutter and M. Fernanda Rivas — Social decision-making in childhood and adolescence / Eveline A. Crone ... [et al.] — Why sanction? Functional causes of punishment and reward / Pat Barclay and Toko Kiyonari — Self-governance through altruistic punishment? / Nikos Nikoforakis — Beyond kin : cooperation in a tribal society / Pierre Lienard.

Summary: One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish others who violate norms and undermine collective interests? Reward and punishment is a classic theme in research on social dilemmas. More recently, it has received considerable attention from scientists working in various disciplines such as economics, neuroscience, and psychology. We know now that reward and punishment can promote cooperation in so-called public good dilemmas, where people need to decide how much from their personal resources to contribute to the public good. Clearly, enjoying the contributions of others while not contributing is tempting. Punishment (and reward) are effective in reducing free-riding. Yet the recent explosion of research has also triggered many questions. For example, who can reward and punish most effectively? Is punishment effective in any culture? What are the emotions that accompany reward and punishment? Even if reward and punishment are effective, are they also efficient -- knowing that rewards and punishment are costly to administer? How can sanctioning systems best organized to be reduce free-riding? The chapters in this book, the first in a series on human cooperation, explore the workings of reward and punishment, how they should be organized, and their functions in society, thereby providing a synthesis of the psychology, economics, and neuroscience of human cooperation.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish others who violate norms and undermine collective interests?

Reward and punishment is a classic theme in research on social dilemmas. More recently, it has received considerable attention from scientists working in various disciplines such as economics, neuroscience, and psychology. We know now that reward and punishment can promote cooperation in so-called public good dilemmas, where people need to decide how much from their personal resources to contribute to the public good. Clearly, enjoying the contributions of others while not contributing is tempting. Punishment (and reward) are effective in reducing free-riding. Yet the recent explosion of research has also triggered many questions. For example, who can reward and punish most effectively? Is punishment effective in any culture? What are the emotions that accompany reward and punishment? Even if reward and punishment are effective, are they also efficient -- knowing that rewards and punishment are costly to administer? How can sanctioning systems best organized to be reduce free-riding? The chapters in this book, the first in a series on human cooperation, explore the workings of reward and punishment, how they should be organized, and their functions in society, thereby providing a synthesis of the psychology, economics, and neuroscience of human cooperation.