Punish and Cure

Punish in public

Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments to Israeli parents facing fines for arriving late to their child‟s day care. We show here that enhancing the norm salience role of punishment can eliminate its detrimental effects. In a public goo...

Self-Overcoming in Foucault's Discipline and Punish

Should You Punish or Reward Current Customers ?

Why do we punish negligent behaviors?

Prior research suggests that negligent harms are punished because of the resulting negative outcomes. Under this account, negligent but completely harmless acts should not be punished. An alternative possibility is that negligence is punished as a way of modifying future thought and behavior. Across three studies we find support for this second proposal. Study 1 demonstrates that punishment is ...

Capuchin monkeys punish those who have more

⁎ Corresponding author. Harvard University, Departmen Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel.: +1 203 558 0974. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.L. Leimgru http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.12.002 1090-5138/© 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please cite this article as: Leimgruber, K.L., et dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.12 Article history: Initial receipt 1 September 2015 ...