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SUBMITTER: Konishi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455743 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Konishi Naoki N Ohtsubo Yohsuke Y
Biology letters 20150501 5
Many experiments have demonstrated that people are willing to incur cost to punish norm violators even when they are not directly harmed by the violation. Such altruistic third-party punishment is often considered an evolutionary underpinning of large-scale human cooperation. However, some scholars argue that previously demonstrated altruistic third-party punishment against fairness-norm violations may be an experimental artefact. For example, envy-driven retaliatory behaviour (i.e. spite) towar ...[more]