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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Inferences from Second and Third Party Punishment

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • Rhea Howard
    Harvard University
  • Max Krasnow
    Harvard University

Abstract

Why do individuals pay costs to intervene in conflicts that do not affect them? In two studies using vignettes and economic games (N =849), we show that observers are equally dissuaded from mistreating third-party punishers as they are second-party punishers providing additional evidence for the deterrence model of third-party intervention.

Social Cognition