Replication data: Generosity is a sign of trustworthiness – the punishment of selfishness is not
GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1944
Abstract: Peer-punishment is an important determinant of cooperation in human groups. It has been suggested that, at the proximate level of analysis, punitive preferences can explain why humans incur costs to punish their deviant peers. How punitive preferences could have evolved in humans is still not entirely understood. A possible explanation at the ultimate level of analysis comes from signaling theory. It has been argued that the punishment of defectors can be a type-separating signal of the punisher's cooperative intent. As a result, punishers are selected more often as interaction partners in soc ... more Availability: Free access (without registration)
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Subject area: Organizational Sociology, Military Sociology | Social Sciences | Sociology | Economics | Social Psychology
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 2014-03-25;2014-03-27
Geographic coverage: Switzerland / CH
Universe: In total, 186 subjects participated in our computerized laboratory experiment. Subjects were students from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, 51% were female and they were 23.6 years old on average (sd = 6.71).
Sampling Procedure: All participants in our experiment were recruited from the subject pool maintained by the University Registration Center for Study Participants (UAST) of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. A random sample of participants was drawn from this subject pool and people included in this sample were invited via e-mail to participate in the experimen ... more Mode of Data Collection: Laboratory experiment
Bibliographic information
Primärforschende, Institution: Przepiorka, Wojtek; Utrecht University | Liebe, Ulf; University of Warwick
Publication year: 2016
DOI: 10.7802/1944
Study number: SDN-10.7802-1944
Contributor, Institution, Role: Przepiorka, Wojtek;Utrecht University;Contact Person
Publisher: GESIS, Cologne
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/1944
Reference publications
Publications: Przepiorka, Wojtek and Ulf Liebe. 2016. "Generosity is a sign of trustworthiness – the punishment of selfishness is not." Evolution and Human Behavior 37(4):255-262.;10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.12.003
