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Letting off Steam! Experimental Evidence on Displaced Aggression

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  • Elina Wiederhold
  • Christoph Bühren

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Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. We term the latter behavior inappropriate punishment. Although it is a widespread issue, experimental economics has widely ignored it. We fill this gap and find that one-third of unfairly treated subjects punish co-players who are not responsible for the unfairness. Students affiliated with an armed forces university seem to be more likely to engage in this type of punishment behavior than non-soldier students.

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  • Elina Wiederhold & Christoph Bühren, 2025. "Letting off Steam! Experimental Evidence on Displaced Aggression," Review of Behavioral Economics, now publishers, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlrbe:105.00000200
    DOI: 10.1561/105.00000200
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