CINEMA 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Group Selection, Thomas Robert Malthus
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De quervain et al (2004) the neural basis of altruistic punishment. People voluntarily incur costs to punish violation of social norms. Altruistic punishment has been a decisive force in the evolution of human cooperation. Effective punishment: activated the dorsal striatum (processing of rewards, stronger activation willing to incur greater costs in order to punish. Support hypothesis that people derive satisfaction from punishing norm violations. Reciprocity combination of altruistic punishment and altruistic rewarding. People often reward others for cooperative, norm-abiding behaviours, and punish violations of social norms. Social norms had to be enforced by other measures and private sanctions. Sanctions are altruistic if they involve costly acts that confer economic benefits on other individuals. Humans have to be motivate to punish. A design to study the punishment of defectors. Combining an economic experiment involving real monetary payoffs with positron emission tomography (pet) Altruistic punishment is associated with activation of brain areas related o rewarding processes.
