Antisocial punishment across societies
Antisocial punishment across societies
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DOI：
10.1126/science.1153808
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发表时间：
2008-03-07
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Gachter, Simon
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作者：
Herrmann, Benedikt;Thoeni, Christian;Gachter, Simon
我们记录了反社会惩罚的广泛存在，也就是说，对行为亲社会的人进行制裁。我们的证据来自我们在世界各地16个可比参与者池中进行的公共产品实验。然而，有一个巨大的跨社会的变化.一些参与者池惩罚高贡献者与惩罚低贡献者一样多，而在其他参与者池中，人们只惩罚低贡献者。在一些参与者池中，反社会惩罚的强度足以消除惩罚的合作促进效应。我们还表明，在一个国家的公民合作和法治的薄弱规范是显着的反社会惩罚的预测。我们的研究结果表明，只有在强有力的社会合作规范的补充下，惩罚机会才是有益的。
We document the widespread existence of antisocial punishment, that is, the sanctioning of people who behave prosocially. Our evidence comes from public goods experiments that we conducted in 16 comparable participant pools around the world. However, there is a huge cross- societal variation. Some participant pools punished the high contributors as much as they punished the low contributors, whereas in others people only punished low contributors. In some participant pools, antisocial punishment was strong enough to remove the cooperation- enhancing effect of punishment. We also show that weak norms of civic cooperation and the weakness of the rule of law in a country are significant predictors of antisocial punishment. Our results show that punishment opportunities are socially beneficial only if complemented by strong social norms of cooperation.