Exploring the Motivations for Punishment: Framing and Country-Level Effects.

Identifying the motives underpinning punishment is crucial for understanding its evolved function. In principle, punishment of distributional inequality could be motivated by the desire to reciprocate losses ('revenge') or by the desire to reduce payoff asymmetries between the punisher and...

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Main Authors: Jonathan E Bone, Katherine McAuliffe, Nichola J Raihani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4972317?pdf=render