title: The social costs of punishment.
abstract: Lab experiments on punishment are of limited relevance for understanding cooperative behavior in the real world. In real interactions, punishment is not cheap, but the costs of punishment are of a different nature than in experiments. They do not correspond to direct payments or payoff deductions, but they arise from the repercussions punishment has on social networks and future interactions.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Biology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands. pieter.van.den.berg@rug.nl
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van den Berg
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Molleman
authors.forename: Franz J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Weissing
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011678:Punishment / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior