Ben Jann and Elisabeth Coutts

Social Status and Peer-Punishment: Findings from Two Road Traffic Field Experiments

Note: We are indebted to Renato Marioni and Stephan Suhner (Experiment 1), and to Jörg Rothe, Heiko Schmiedeskamp,Hélène Venningen, Jelena Curcic, and Jakub Swiech (Experiment 2), for their support in designing the experiments, conducting the fieldwork, and/or preparing the data. We thank BMW (Schweiz) AG for providing a vehicle (free of charge) for Experiment 2. Experiment 1 has also been reported in Jann, Suhner, and Marioni (1995) and in Jann (2009); Experiment 2 has also been reported in Rothe and Schmiederkamp (2006).

Abstract: In a seminal experiment, Doob and Gross (1968) examined the influence of social status on peer-punishment ...

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