Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device.

By Michael E. Price, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Ernst Fehr
2. Samuel Bowles
3. C. A. Aktipis
4. Robert Boyd
5. Herbert Gintis
6. Stephen Stich
7. J. Tooby
8. L. Cosmides

In Safety Research

1. Ernst Fehr
2. Jeffrey P. Carpenter
3. Herbert Gintis
4. Samuel Bowles
5. Robert Boyd
6. Joseph Henrich
7. C. A. Aktipis
8. Ananish Chaudhuri

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ernst Fehr
2. Jeffrey P. Carpenter
3. Samuel Bowles
4. Herbert Gintis
5. Joseph Henrich
6. Robert Boyd
7. C. A. Aktipis
8. T. Yamagishi

Citations in the corpus

• Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions (2005, background): “…of representations of persons, predators (Barrett et al., under review), minds (Baron-Cohen, 1995; Leslie, 1987), coalitions (Kurzban et al., 2001; Price et al., 2002), social interactions (Cosmides & Tooby, 1989, 1992, 2005), kinship (Lieberman et al., 2003, in press, under review), artifacts…”
• The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “…of representations of persons, predators (Barrett et al., under review), minds (Baron-Cohen, 1995; Leslie, 1987), coalitions (Kurzban et al., 2001; Price et al., 2002), social interactions (Cosmides & Tooby, 1989, 1992, 2005), kinship (Lieberman et al., 2003, in press, under review), artifacts…”
• False friends are worse than bitter enemies: “Altruistic” punishment of in-group members (2004, background): “Evolutionary psychologists emphasize the role of punitive sentiments toward others in solving the collective action problem (Price et al., 2002).”
• The Evolution of Hazing: Motivational Mechanisms and the Abuse of Newcomers (2011, background): “Solving the problems posed by free riders is considered critical to the evolution of cooperation in humans (see discussion in Price et al., 2002).”
• The Evolution of Morality (2015, background): “Price, Cosmides, and Tooby (2002) adduced experimental evidence that two motivational systems have evolved to overcome the free- rider problem.”
• Explaining altruistic behavior in humans (2003, background): “Several researchers have predicted this general behavior based on general real-life social observation and field studies, including Akerlof (1982), Blau (1964), and Homans (1961). The laboratory results show that this behavior has a motivational basis in strong reciprocity and not simply long-term m”
• Know when to walk away: contingent movement and the evolution of cooperation. (2004, methodology): “Like TFT, strategies based on altruistic punishment (Fehr and Gachter, 2002; Price et al., 2002), indirect reciprocity (Nowak and Sigmund, 1998a, b; Panchanathan and Boyd, 2003), and other types of assortment (Eshel and Cavalli-Sforza, 1982; Wilson and Dugatkin, 1997) enable the formation of a…”
• The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach (2013, background): “Recent theoretical and experimental work demonstrates that ultra-social life cannot be maintained without the justice motive (Fehr and Gachter 2002; Price et al. 2002).”