He says his team's research is influenced by questions in evolutionary biology about why people and groups use costly punishment.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Missus Graham had to decide if the paper would publish the stories and risk possible punishment by the government.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

In schools, the punishment for cheating could be a failing grade on the paper or in the course.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The Museum of Crime and Punishment has exhibits that explain how experts gather evidence at the place where a crime is committed.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Yet he says this message is often more scary for people than the idea that leprosy is some sort of spiritual punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

He says international students would face the same punishment as American citizens for underage drinking in Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The group with the most punishment earned twenty-five percent less than the group with the least punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

The results showed that if punishment was possible, the group cooperated better on the public project and donated more money towards its goal.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

In India, leprosy has traditionally been considered a punishment for something bad done in a former life.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

There was no money for rebuilding. To add to all these problems, radical Republicans in Washington were demanding severe punishment for the South.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

One music expert said: "Your Cheatin' Heart" is so sad, it sounds like a judge sentencing somebody to a punishment worse than death itself."

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Parts of this program are recorded in a studio in the Museum of Crime and Punishment.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The punishment will not change: violators cannot be jailed or fined more than one hundred dollars.

VOA: special.2010.10.11