Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation

Heiko Rauhut and Fabian Winter

Types of Normative Conflicts and the Effectiveness of Punishment

Note: We thank Nikos Nikiforakis and Hironori Otsubo for allowing us to reanalyze their data, the Nature publishing group for the right to reprint one figure from Fehr and Gächter (2002), and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Heikor Rauhut acknowledges support by the SNSF Starting Grant BSSGI0_155981. Correspondence should be addressed to HR or FW. Both authors contributed equally to this work and are listed intentionally in alphabetical order.

Abstract: While the current literature focuses on how social norms generate cooperation, the issue of norm-related conflict deserves more attention. We develop a new typology of normative conflict ...