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Antisocial Punishment Across Societies

Herrmann, Benedikt, Thöni, Christian, Gächter, Simon·2008·Science

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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.

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Authors: Herrmann, B., Thöni, C., & Gächter, S.
Affiliations: University of Nottingham (GB)
Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, University of Nottingham, School of Economics, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
ORCID: Herrmann, Benedikt
Venue: Science
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published: 2008-03-07
Volume: 319
Issue: 5868
Pages: 1362-1367
ISSN: 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153808
OpenAlex: W2137709071
Cited by: 2,038
References: 38
Citations by year: 2026: 52 · 2025: 101 · 2024: 120 · 2023: 129 · 2022: 126 · 2021: 129 · 2020: 108 · 2019: 127 · 2018: 100 · 2017: 127 · 2016: 112 · 2015: 142 · 2014: 140 · 2013: 124 · 2012: 118
FWCI: 264.56
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) (acceptedVersion)
Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) (submittedVersion)
Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
Keywords: antisocial punishment, prosocial behavior, public goods game, cross-cultural variation, cooperation, rule of law, social norms
MeSH terms: Cooperative Behavior, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Emotions, Games, Experimental, Humans, Punishment, Regression Analysis, Social Behavior, Social Control, Formal

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