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The social and psychological costs of punishing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2012

Gabrielle S. Adams  and
Elizabeth Mullen
Gabrielle S. Adams
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. gsadams@stanford.eduhttp://www.stanford.edu/~gsadamsemullen@stanford.eduhttp://elizabeth.mullen.socialpsychology.org/
Elizabeth Mullen
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. gsadams@stanford.eduhttp://www.stanford.edu/~gsadamsemullen@stanford.eduhttp://elizabeth.mullen.socialpsychology.org/
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Abstract

We review evidence of the psychological and social costs associated with punishing. We propose that these psychological and social costs should be considered (in addition to material costs) when searching for evidence of costly punishment “in the wild.”

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2012 , pp. 15 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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