Building human cooperation: Carrots work better

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 15:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published today in the journal Science by Harvard and collaborators at the Stockholm School of Economics. While previous studies have focused almost exclusively on punishment for promoting public cooperation, rewards are shown to be much more successful in this research.read more

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