Punishment motivated by fairness, not revenge

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 18:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers at UCL (University College London) and Harvard University have found that we punish cheats only when they end up better off than us, in a study that challenges the notion that punishment is motivated by revenge.

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