The Effect of Reputation on Antisocial Punishment in Public Good Games

摘要：

That altruistic punishment promotes cooperation has been widely accepted in many laboratory experiments. However, some researchers find that people might punish not only freeloaders, but cooperators too. Punishment on cooperator is defined as antisocial punishment, having a negative effect on promoting cooperation and in conflict with all common justice rules. How to reduce antisocial punishment in circumstance with such behavior should be explored. By employing public good game with reputation, we find that the existence of reputation reduced the frequency of antisocial punishment. The effectiveness of reputation partly comes from a decrease of freetarget punishment and from that of malicious antisocial behavior.

关键词： Reputation Antisocial punishment Public good game

作者: CHENG Qi-qi XU Bin

作者单位: College of Economics, Zhejiang University, P.R. China, 310027 School of Public Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, P.R. China, 310018

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)

会议地点: 澳大利亚堪培拉

会议语种:英文

页码: 872-876

在线出版日期: 2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）