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Men & punishment

For a new study, subjects were men and women given the opportunity to punish each other by withholding tokens. Results showed that men punish more than women, men obtain higher rank and punishment by males decreases payoffs for both sexes. Furthermore, men are willing to punish people who have done nothing wrong except co-operate. According to the researchers, there may be

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