An economic experiment reveals that humans prefer pool punishment to maintain the commons

Reciprocity: Weak or strong? What punishment experiments do (and do not) demonstrate

(2012) Francesco Guala   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Punishment and cooperation in nature

(2012) Nichola J. Raihani et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare

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Centralized sanctioning and legitimate authority promote cooperation in humans

(2011) D. Baldassarri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A STRATEGY TO INCREASE COOPERATION IN THE VOLUNTEER'S DILEMMA: REDUCING VIGILANCE IMPROVES ALARM CALLS

(2010) Marco Archetti   EVOLUTION

Social learning promotes institutions for governing the commons

(2010) Karl Sigmund et al.   NATURE

Punish, but not too hard: how costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game

(2010) Dirk Helbing et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare

(2010) R. Boyd et al.   SCIENCE

When does optional participation allow the evolution of cooperation?

(2009) S. Mathew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Punisher pays

(2008) Manfred Milinski et al.   NATURE

Winners don’t punish

(2008) Anna Dreber et al.   NATURE

The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation

(2008) M. Egas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Constraining free riding in public goods games: designated solitary punishers can sustain human cooperation

(2008) R. O'Gorman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Antisocial Punishment Across Societies

(2008) B. Herrmann et al.   SCIENCE

The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment

(2008) S. Gachter et al.   SCIENCE