Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/257504 
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2021
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[Journal:] Games [ISSN:] 2073-4336 [Volume:] 12 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 22 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1-11
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MDPI, Basel
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Initiated by the seminal work of Fehr and Fischbacher (Evolution and Human Behavior (2004)), a large body of research has shown that people often take punitive actions towards norm violators even when they are not directly involved in transactions. This paper shows in an experimental setting that this behavioral finding extends to a situation where a pair of individuals jointly decides how strong a third-party punishment to impose. It also shows that this punishment behavior is robust to the size of social distance within pairs. These results lend useful insight since decisions in our everyday lives and also in courts are often made by teams.
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dilemma
experiment
social norms
team decision making
third-party punishment
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