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The cost of noise: Stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments

Mohammad Salahshour,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Vincent Oberhauser,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4512-6390

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Matteo Smerlak

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: smerlak@mis.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0844-8868

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The cost of noise: Stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments

Mohammad Salahshour,
Vincent Oberhauser,
Matteo Smerlak

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Published: March 2, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263028

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