Who Punishes? Personality Traits Predict Individual Variation in Punitive Sentiment
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Who Punishes? Personality Traits Predict Individual Variation in Punitive Sentiment
Original language description
Cross-culturally, participants in public goods games reward participants and punish defectors to a degree beyond that warranted by rational, profit-maximizing considerations. Costly punishment, where individuals impose costs on defectors at a cost to themselves, is thought to promote the maintenance of cooperation. However, despite substantial variation in the extent to which people punish, little is known about why some individuals, and not others, choose to pay these costs. Here, we test whether personality traits might contribute to variation in helping and punishment behavior. We first replicate a previous study using public goods scenarios to investigate effects of sex, relatedness and likelihood of future interaction on willingness to help a group member or to punish a transgressor. As in the previous study, we find that individuals are more willing to help related than unrelated needy others and that women are more likely to express desire to help than men. Desire to help was hi
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AN - Psychology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP407%2F10%2F1303" target="_blank" >GAP407/10/1303: The development of Olfactory Abilities and Preferences during Childhood and Puberty</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Evolutionary Psychology
ISSN
1474-7049
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Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
186-200
UT code for WoS article
000317897300016
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