Adam Morris from Harvard University’s Department of Psychology talks with us about his game theory research into why people engage in retribution with little regard for its effectiveness, yet they respond to punishment from others with flexibility based on costs and benefits. His open-access article “Evolution of Flexibility and Rigidity in Retaliatory Punishment” was published with James MacGlashan, Michael Littman, and Fiery Cushman in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on September 26, 2017, in vol. 114, no. 39.
Websites
- Play the Steal-Punish game just like the research participants
- All code and data from the article
- Moral Psychology Research Lab
- “Habitual control of goal selection in humans” w/ Fiery Cushman
- Michael Littman on Twitter
- Fiery Cushman on Twitter
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Hosts / Producers
Ryan Watkins & Doug Leigh
How to Cite
Watkins, R., Leigh, D., & Morris, A.. (2017, November 28). Parsing Science – Retaliatory Punishment. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5915119
Music
What’s The Angle? by Shane Ivers