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View article: Scrutinizing Punishment Institutions: A Lab Experiment on Alternative Punishment Regimes
Scrutinizing Punishment Institutions: A Lab Experiment on Alternative Punishment Regimes Open
This experimental paper provides evidence on the incidence of different third-party punishment institutions in the context of a game designed to represent simplified versions of specific, real-life situations. We begin with a benchmark sce…
View article: Information search, coherence effects, and their interplay in legal decision making
Information search, coherence effects, and their interplay in legal decision making Open
Legal judgments require one to make sense of a complex set of typically contradicting pieces of information that can easily be interpreted in a biased manner. This systematic judgment bias can be caused by biased information search (i.e., …
View article: Altruistic Punishment: The Golden Keystone of Human Cooperation and Social Stability?
Altruistic Punishment: The Golden Keystone of Human Cooperation and Social Stability? Open
‘Altruistic punishment’ (i.e., costly punishment that serves no instrumental goal for the punisher) could serve, as suggested by the pertinent experimental literature, as a powerful enforcer of social norms. This paper discusses foundation…