Detrimental effects of sanctions on human altruism

By Ernst Fehr, Bettina Rockenbach. Nature, 2003

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Using the Law to Change the Custom (2012, neutral): “They react unkindly to unkind behaviors (Fehr and Falk, 2002; Fehr, Fischbacher and Gachter, 2002; Fehr and Gachter, 2000; Fehr and Rockenbach, 2003).”
Wild justice and fair play: cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals (2004, background): “…also has been a resurgence of interest in the notion of fairness and altruism in humans (Sober and Wilson 1998, 2000; Douglas 2001; Riolo et al. 2001; Sigmund and Nowak 2001; Bowles and Gintis 2002; Fehr and Gächter 2002; Jamieson 2002; Sigmund et al. 2002; Bewley 2003; Fehr and Rockenbach 2003).”
Is Pay for Performance Detrimental to Innovation? (2009, background): “In Fehr et al. (1997) and Fehr and Rockenbach (2003), the introduction of explicit incentives reduces the performance of workers in a firm-worker relationship because reciprocity was compromised. The focus of these papers differs from ours. They are concerned with tasks in which effort is the main i”
Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment (2009, background): “Fehr and Rockenbach (2003), Houser, Xiao, McCabe and Smith (2005) and Rigdon (2005) conducted games in which trustors could suggest amounts to be returned by their trustee counterparts and in some conditions threaten punishment should they not do so.”
The effects of custodial vs. non-custodial sentences on re-offending: A systematic review of the state of knowledge (2006, background): “Given recent research on neurobiological effects of feelings of fairness (Fehr and Rockenbach, 2003), such a possibility should be envisaged with more attention in future research.”
Trust games: A meta-analysis (2011, neutral): “…26 10.00 39 3 U U Falk and Zehnder (2007) Switzerland 986 11.77 66 160 3 U U U U Farina, O’Higgins et al. (2008) Italy 64 11.90 36 150 3 U U U U U U Fehr and Rockenbach (2003) Germany 48 3.18 58 120 3 U U U U U Fershtman and Gneezy (2001) Israel 483 5.28 58 135 3 U U U (continued on next page) N…”
Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or complements? (2012, background): “Recall that in the Trust Game implemented by Fehr and Rockenbach (2003) the investor’s threat to fine the trustee if the back transfer was not sufficient resulted in a lesser level of reciprocity of the trustee: conditional on the investor’s transfer to the trustee, back-transfers were less under…”
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, background): “…arguments can explain cases of helping between unrelated individuals in wasps, where high mortality rates mean that there is an appreciable chance that a subordinate individual can inherit the dominant position and, hence, also inherit any workers that they helped produce (Queller et al., 2000).”
Managing Joint Production Motivation: The Role of Goal Framing and Governance Mechanisms (2011, background): “For example, Fehr and Rockenbach (2003) showed that when sanctions are interpreted as supporting private gain, they reduce the willingness to cooperate if the punishment is not high enough (Mulder, van Dijk, De Cremer, & Wilke, 2006).”
Nonhuman Species’ Reactions to Inequity and their Implications for Fairness (2006, background): “punishing in situations in which another individual behaves noncooperatively (Fehr and Rockenbach, 2003; Kahneman et al., 1986; Zizzo and Oswald, 2001).”