Evolution of Third Party Punishment - Publication and Media Coverage

Our recent paper on the evolution of third-party punishment behavior was published in Proceedings for The Royal Society B! Here is a link to the full paper.

It subsequently attracted considerable media coverage, including a press releases at Bloomberg News: Why Some Communities Police Themselves, While Others Don’t, Science Daily: Evolution of ‘third party punishment’, the Maryland Institute for Systems Research: Crime and punishment: interdisciplinary researchers explain ‘third party’ evolution.

To excerpt from the latter:

Game theory has been used before in social science work, but this is the first time that cross-cultural psychologists and computational game theorists have collaborated to examine the evolution of third-party punishment.