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Thursday, March 05, 2015
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DR@W Forum: Andrew Siu (Department of Economics)Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Room 1"How Intuitive and Analytic Thinkers Punish Norm Violators out of Anger" Punishing norm violators can sustain social cooperation. But some violators are left unpunished when punishers must pay to impose penalty. We experimentally examine how two dispositional factors—intuitive and analytic thinking—and anger towards violators affect the way individuals punish at different prices of punishment. We find that (a) highly intuitive thinkers are more insensitive to price changes than the less intuitive; (b) less analytic thinkers punish more than the highly analytic; (c) highly intuitive, angry people are much more insensitive than less intuitive, angry people; (d) angry people still pay attention to punishment prices. |