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Altruistic punishment and the origin of cooperation
Volume: 102, Issue: 19, Pages: 7047 - 7049
Published: Apr 27, 2005
Abstract
How did human cooperation evolve? Recent evidence shows that many people are willing to engage in altruistic punishment, voluntarily paying a cost to punish noncooperators. Although this behavior helps to explain how cooperation can persist, it creates an important puzzle. If altruistic punishment provides benefits to nonpunishers and is costly to punishers, then how could it evolve? Drawing on recent insights from voluntary public goods games,...
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Paper Details
Title
Altruistic punishment and the origin of cooperation
Published Date
Apr 27, 2005
Volume
102
Issue
19
Pages
7047 - 7049
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