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Completed: Cultural variation in social perceptions of norm-breakers and peer punishers
Social norms may be enforced by individuals informally punishing each other for norm transgressions. But how does society really perceive these informal punishers?
When is it appropriate to reprimand a norm violation? The roles of anger, behavioral consequences, violation severity, and social distance
Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 12, No. 4, July 2017, pp. 396–407. Abstract Experiments on economic games typically fail to find positive reputational effects of using peer punishment of selfish behav
Cultural Universals and Cultural Differences in Meta-Norms about Peer Punishment
Management and Organization Review, Volume 13, Issue 4 (Special Issue Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of Kwok Leung (1958–2015)) Abstract Violators of cooperation norms may be informally punis
Moderators of the disapproval of peer punishment
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 1368430215583519. Abstract Recent studies have found disapproval of peer punishment of norm violations. This seems puzzling, given the potential benefits peer
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation
Political Science Research and Methods Abstract We experimentally explore the role of institutions imposing collective sanctions in sustaining cooperation. In our experiment, players only observe noisy

Pontus Strimling
I am a research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, on the theme "New Technologies and the future of humanity", guest professor of Migration and health at the department of Women's and Childr

Climate Crisis Norm Entrepreneurs - How successful are they?
Recently, researchers have tried to identify various positive social tipping points that could help societies shift rapidly toward a sustainable, post-carbon future. One of the social tipping interven
The road to civilization goes through threat and punishment
Do you frown at people who sneeze in their hand instead of in a tissue? Would you be prepared to punish that person by frowning at him or her, showing you dislike the behaviour? In that case you are a
Viktoria Spaiser and Nicole Nisbett: Climate Crisis Norm Entrepreneurs: How successful are they?
Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Viktoria Spaiser and Nicole Nisbett. REGISTERAbstractRecently, researchers have tried to identiJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the.
Why Inflicting Disability is Wrong: The Mere Difference View and The Causation Based Objection
I The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Adam Cureton and David Wasserman (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars