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Cooperation and punishment, especially in humans
- Abstract:
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Explaining altruistic cooperation is one of the greatest challenges faced by sociologists, economists, and evolutionary biologists. The problem is determining why an individual would carry out a costly behavior that benefits another. Possible solutions to this problem include kinship, repeated interactions, and policing. Another solution that has recently received much attention is the threat of punishment. However, punishing behavior is often costly for the punisher, and so it is not immedia...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Royal Society
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Natural Environment Research Council
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Naturalist Journal website
- Volume:
- 164
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 753-764
- Publication date:
- 2004-12-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0003-0147
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:2816
- Deposit date:
- 2009-06-04
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- University of Chicago
- Copyright date:
- 2004
- Notes:
- Citation: Gardner, A. & West, S. A. (2004). 'Cooperation and punishment, especially in humans', American Naturalist, 164(6), 753-764. [Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/current]. © 2004 by The University of Chicago. N.B. Prof West is now based at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
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