Compensate a little, but punish a lot: Asymmetric routes to restoring justice.

PLoS One · 2019 · PMC6328196 · PMID 30629720

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Specifically, a Mann-Whitney U test on spending rates for those who spent anything across conditions yielded a marginally significant effect (Z = -1.73, p = .084), such that Observers who spent anything to punish a bad Decider tended to spend less than those who spent anything to compensate a good Decider (M Bad Person Injustice = $9.57, M Good Person Injustice = $13.40).

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