Sharing Compromising Information as a Cooperative Strategy

Well-enforced norms create an opportunity for norm breakers to cooperate in ventures requiring trust. This is realized when norm breakers, by sharing evidence of their breaches, make themselves vulnerable to denunciation and therefore trustworthy. The sharing of compromising information (SCI) is a s...

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Main Authors: Diego Gambetta, Wojtek Przepiorka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2019-05-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-14-352/