Costly Punishment Across Human Societies Export

@article{citeulike:711760, abstract = {Recent behavioral experiments aimed at understanding the evolutionary foundations of human cooperation have suggested that a willingness to engage in costly punishment, even in one-shot situations, may be part of human psychology and a key element in understanding our sociality. However, because most experiments have been confined to students in industrialized societies, generalizations of these insights to the species have necessarily been tentative. Here, experimental results from 15 diverse populations show that (i) all populations demonstrate some willingness to administer costly punishment as unequal behavior increases, (ii) the magnitude of this punishment varies substantially across populations, and (iii) costly punishment positively covaries with altruistic behavior across populations. These findings are consistent with models of the gene-culture coevolution of human altruism and further sharpen what any theory of human cooperation needs to explain. 10.1126/science.1127333}, author = {Henrich, Joseph and Mcelreath, Richard and Barr, Abigail and Ensminger, Jean and Barrett, Clark and Bolyanatz, Alexander and Cardenas, Juan C. and Gurven, Michael and Gwako, Edwins and Henrich, Natalie and Lesorogol, Carolyn and Marlowe, Frank and Tracer, David and Ziker, John}, citeulike-article-id = {711760}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1127333}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312/5781/1767}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16794075}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16794075}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1126/science.1127333}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {behavioral, cross-cultural, economics}, month = {June}, number = {5781}, pages = {1767--1770}, posted-at = {2009-01-24 19:50:37}, priority = {0}, title = {Costly Punishment Across Human Societies}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1127333}, volume = {312}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:711760 L3 - citeulike-article-id:711760 N2 - Recent behavioral experiments aimed at understanding the evolutionary foundations of human cooperation have suggested that a willingness to engage in costly punishment, even in one-shot situations, may be part of human psychology and a key element in understanding our sociality. However, because most experiments have been confined to students in industrialized societies, generalizations of these insights to the species have necessarily been tentative. Here, experimental results from 15 diverse populations show that (i) all populations demonstrate some willingness to administer costly punishment as unequal behavior increases, (ii) the magnitude of this punishment varies substantially across populations, and (iii) costly punishment positively covaries with altruistic behavior across populations. These findings are consistent with models of the gene-culture coevolution of human altruism and further sharpen what any theory of human cooperation needs to explain. 10.1126/science.1127333 IS - 5781 JF - Science EP - 1770 TI - Costly Punishment Across Human Societies VL - 312 SP - 1767 KW - behavioral KW - cross-cultural KW - economics AU - Henrich, Joseph AU - Mcelreath, Richard AU - Barr, Abigail AU - Ensminger, Jean AU - Barrett, Clark AU - Bolyanatz, Alexander AU - Cardenas, Juan AU - Gurven, Michael AU - Gwako, Edwins AU - Henrich, Natalie AU - Lesorogol, Carolyn AU - Marlowe, Frank AU - Tracer, David AU - Ziker, John PY - 2006/06/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1127333 ER -