Data: Reward and Punishment in a Team Contest

This is the database for the article Reward and Punishment in a Team Contest. A team contest entails both public good characteristics within the teams as well as a contest across teams. In an experimental study, we analyse behaviour in such a team contest when allowing to punish or to reward other team members. Moreover, we compare two types of contest environment: One in which two teams compete for a prize and another one in which we switch off the between-group element of the contest. We find that reward giving, as opposed to punishing, induces higher contributions to the team contest. Furthermore, expenditures on rewarding other co-players are significantly higher than those for punishing.

本数据集对应学术论文《团队竞赛中的奖惩》（Reward and Punishment in a Team Contest）。团队竞赛兼具团队内部公共品（public good）特性与跨团队竞争属性。本研究通过实验方法，分析了允许参与者对其他团队成员实施奖惩时的团队竞赛行为表现。此外，本研究设置两类竞赛环境开展对照：一类为两支团队争夺竞赛奖品的标准场景，另一类则移除了竞赛的跨群体竞争要素。实验结果显示，相较于惩罚机制，奖励机制可显著提升团队竞赛中的成员贡献水平。进一步分析还发现，参与者用于奖励其他队友的支出显著高于其用于惩罚他人的支出。