Herrmann, B., Thöni, C., &Gächter, S. (2008). Antisocial punishment across societies. Science, 319(5868), 1362-1367.
We document the widespread existence of antisocial punishment, that is, the sanctioning of people who behave prosocially. Our evidence comes from public goods experiments that we conducted in 16 comparable participant pools around the world. However, there is a huge cross-societal variation. Some participant pools punished the high contributors as much as they punished the low contributors, whereas in others people only punished low contributors. ...