I dare you to punish me-vendettas in games of cooperation.

Everybody has heard of neighbours, who have been fighting over some minor topic for years. The fight goes back and forth, giving the neighbours a hard time. These kind of reciprocal punishments are known as vendettas and they are a cross-cultural phenomenon. In evolutionary biology, punishment is se...

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Main Authors: Katrin Fehl, Ralf D Sommerfeld, Dirk Semmann, Hans-Jürgen Krambeck, Manfred Milinski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3446949?pdf=render