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SUBMITTER: Riedl K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3443148 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Riedl Katrin K Jensen Keith K Call Josep J Tomasello Michael M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120827 37
Punishment can help maintain cooperation by deterring free-riding and cheating. Of particular importance in large-scale human societies is third-party punishment in which individuals punish a transgressor or norm violator even when they themselves are not affected. Nonhuman primates and other animals aggress against conspecifics with some regularity, but it is unclear whether this is ever aimed at punishing others for noncooperation, and whether third-party punishment occurs at all. Here we repo ...[more]