Altruistic Punishment and Between-Group Competition: Evidence from n-person Prisoner’s Dilemmas

Collective action, or the large-scale cooperation in the pursuit of public goods, has been suggested to have evolved through cultural group selection. Previous research suggests that the costly punishment of group members who do not contribute to public goods plays an important role in the resolutio...

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Main Authors: Rebers, Susanne, Koopmans, Ruud
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387358/