Reputational and cooperative benefits of third-party compensation

• Published in: Organizational behavior and human decision processes Vol. 164; pp. 27 - 51
• Main Authors: Dhaliwal, Nathan A., Patil, Indrajeet, Cushman, Fiery
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Justice; Morality; Prosociality; Punishment; Signalling; Punishment; Justice; Morality; DG; TG; Prosociality; Signalling

•Third-party compensators are perceived as superior cooperation partners.•Even punitive observers prefer compensators as cooperation partners.•Third-party compensating is an honest signal of lower Dark Triad traits.•We examine these topics across 24 studies, N > 21,000. Although third-party punis...