Advertising cooperative phenotype through costly signals facilitates collective action

Around the world, people engage in practices that involve self-inflicted pain and apparently wasted resources. Researchers theorized that these practices help stabilize within-group cooperation by assorting individuals committed to collective action. While this proposition was previously studied usi...

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Main Authors: Martin Lang, Radim Chvaja, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, David Václavík, Rostislav Staněk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2022-05-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.202202