2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Washington, DC · May 2025
Flash Talk · Social
Across eight experiments (N = 4,914) using economic games, we find that incentivizing punishment undermines cooperation by degrading its socio-moral signal. Attitude surveys suggest that this is driven by perceiving paid punishers as less trustworthy, and by viewing the games as more about maximizing earnings than achieving fair outcomes.
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