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SUBMITTER: Xiao E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1129129 | biostudies-literature | 2005 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050506 20
Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions, there remains substantial debate over why humans use costly punishment. Here we show experimentally that constraints on emotion expression can increase the use of costly punishment. We report data from ultimatum games, where a proposer offers a division of a sum of money and a responder decides whether to acce ...[more]