Question: whats been your most significant findings since studying human behavior

Jono Bone answered on 22 Jun 2013:

Hey marden,

Significance means a specific thing in Science and statistics this being the probability that the data you observed would occur by chance alone. But I’m guessing what your asking is the most important or interesting…

Recently I have been studying how cooperation and punishment is affected by dominance hierarchies using a 2 player game where players can cooperate cheat or punish. I haven’t finished yet but at the moment it seems that punishment is more effective at causing cheating players to start cooperating when one player is stronger than the other. Surprisingly this is true for both the strong and weak player!