When Equality Trumps Reciprocity: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment (2008)
Xiao, Erte, Bicchieri, Cristina
Inequity aversion and reciprocity have been identified as two primary motivations underlying human decision making. However, because income and wealth inequality exist to some degree in all...
Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation
Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation,...
Emotion expression in human punishment behavior
Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions, there...
Emotion expression in human punishment behavior
Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions, there...
When Punishment Fails: Research on Sanctions, Intentions and Non- Cooperation
Daniel Houser, Erte Xiao, Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel...
When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation
Daniel Houser, Erte Xiao, Kevin McCabe, Vernon Smith
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel...
Emotion expression in human punishment behavior
Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions, there...
When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation
Houser, Daniel, Xiao, Erte, McCabe, Kevin, Smith, Vernon
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and previous research suggests both "intentions" and incentives underlie this effect. We report data from an experiment aimed at...
When Equality Trumps Reciprocity: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Xiao, Erte, Bicchieri, Cristina
Inequity aversion and reciprocity have been identified as two primary motivations underlying human decision making. However, because income and wealth inequality exist to some degree in all...
Emotion Expression and Fairness in Economic Exchange
Research in economics and psychology has established that informal sanctions,particularly expressions of negative emotion, can enforce fair economic exchange. However, scholars are only beginning to...
Houser, Daniel, Sands, Barbara, Xiao, Erte
The millions of deaths that occurred during China's great famine of 1959-1961 were the result of one of the world's greatest civil demographic disasters. Two primary hypotheses have been advanced to...
Inequality aversion is a key motive for punishment, with many prominent studies suggesting people use punishment to reduce or eliminate inequality. Punishment in laboratory games, however, is nearly...
Neural Responses to Sanction Threats in Two-Party Economic Exchange
Jian Li, Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser, P Read Montague
Sanctions are used ubiquitously to enforce obedience to social norms. Recent field studies and laboratory experiments have demonstrated, however, that cooperation is sometimes reduced when incentives...
Avoiding the sharp tongue: Anticipated written messages promote fair economic exchange
Research in economics and psychology has established that informal non-monetary sanctions, particularly expressions of negative emotion or disapproval, can enforce fair economic exchange. Scholars,...
Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange
Li, Jian, Xiao, Erte, Houser, Daniel, Montague, P. Read
Sanctions are used ubiquitously to enforce obedience to social norms. However, recent field studies and laboratory experiments have demonstrated that cooperation is sometimes reduced when incentives...