Perceived Shared Condemnation Intensifies Punitive Moral Emotions

Abstract Punishment facilitates large-scale cooperation among humans, but how punishers, who incur an extra cost of punishment, can successfully compete with non-punishers, who free-ride on the punisher’s policing, poses an evolutionary puzzle. One answer is by coordinating punishment to minimise it...

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Main Authors: Naoki Konishi, Tomoko Oe, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kanako Tanaka, Yohsuke Ohtsubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07916-z