Taking Punishment Into Your Own Hands: An Experiment

Duersch Peter, Müller Julia


Zusammenfassung
© 2014 Elsevier B.V. In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from the demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who determines the distribution. First, it is established whether the allocator's payoff is reduced and, afterwards, subjects take part in a second price auction for the right to (physically) carry out the act of payoff reduction themselves. Subjects bid positive amounts and are happier if they get to punish personally.



Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel (Zeitschrift)

Begutachtet
Ja

Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht

Jahr
2015

Fachzeitschrift
Journal of Economic Psychology

Band
46

Ausgabe
1

Erste Seite
1

Letzte Seite
11

Sprache
Englisch

ISSN
01674870

DOI