The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment
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a Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA b Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin 14195, Germany c Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA d Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA e Department of Political Science, Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-4392, USA
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