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Reward and Punishment in Social Dilemmas (Hardcover)
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Reward and Punishment in Social Dilemmas (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Human Cooperation
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One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human
cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers,
even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to
punish others who violate norms and undermine collective interests?
Reward and punishment is a classic theme in research on social
dilemmas. More recently, it has received considerable attention
from scientists working in various disciplines such as economics,
neuroscience, and psychology. We know now that reward and
punishment can promote cooperation in so-called public good
dilemmas, where people need to decide how much from their personal
resources to contribute to the public good. Clearly, enjoying the
contributions of others while not contributing is tempting.
Punishment (and reward) are effective in reducing free-riding. Yet
the recent explosion of research has also triggered many questions.
For example, who can reward and punish most effectively? Is
punishment effective in any culture? What are the emotions that
accompany reward and punishment? Even if reward and punishment are
effective, are they also efficient - knowing that rewards and
punishment are costly to administer? How can sanctioning systems
best organized to be reduce free-riding? The chapters in this book,
the first in a series on human cooperation, explore the workings of
reward and punishment, how they should be organized, and their
functions in society, thereby providing a synthesis of the
psychology, economics, and neuroscience of human cooperation.
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