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DESCRIPTION:Catherine Molho\, “Punishment in relational context: evidence f
 rom 60 societies”\, IAST Lunch Seminar\, Toulouse: IAST\, June 5\, 2026\, 
 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building).\n\nPunishme
 nt systems are central to human cooperation\, and they are remarkably dive
 rse. Punishment can take the form of revenge from victims\, intervention f
 rom third parties\, or sanctioning from institutional representatives. Yet
 \, although punishment takes place in a rich relational context\, prior wo
 rk has largely studied it in interactions between strangers\, obscuring wh
 o is punishing whom and on whose behalf. In this talk\, I argue that embed
 ding punishment in social relationships can improve our understanding of i
 ts prevalence and variation across human societies. I present a new cross-
 cultural dataset of 3\,961 ethnographic texts from 60 largely nonindustria
 l societies. Each text was coded for the presence of second- and third-par
 ty punishment (TPP)\, and for sub-forms of TPP enacted on behalf of kin\, 
 social partners\, or the broader community. Results show that TPP is wides
 pread across human societies\, but its forms vary with socioecology. While
  TPP on behalf of kin is positively associated with kinship intensity\, ge
 neralized TPP on behalf of community members is positively associated with
  technological and social differentiation. These patterns suggest that TPP
  in small-scale societies is neither rare nor primarily the work of indivi
 dual moralistic enforcers. Instead\, it often involves individuals protect
 ing their kin\, groups sharing the costs of enforcement\, or representativ
 es acting on a delegated role. Rather than a single continuum from informa
 l to institutional enforcement\, we observe distinct punishment regimes th
 at track different features of socioecology.
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LOCATION:Toulouse: IAST\, June 5\, 2026\, 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 5 (
 Second floor - TSE Building)
SUMMARY:IAST Lunch Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.tse-fr.eu/seminars/2026-punishment-relational-cont
 ext-evidence-60-societies
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