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Third-party punishment is common across human societies but varies with socioecology

2026-04-30

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<p>Punishment systems are central to maintaining human cooperation, yet how they vary across societies remains poorly understood. Different theoretical frameworks make distinct predictions about who third-party punishment (3PP) defends and the socioecological conditions under which it occurs. We test such predictions using a new cross-cultural dataset of 3961 ethnographic texts (coded 11893 times) from 60 largely...

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2c9c0263-73c1-58c9-9255-60b3a309d10d
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10.31234/osf.io/g79vd_v2
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