When do stereotypes undermine indirect reciprocity?

Social reputations provide a powerful mechanism to stimulate human cooperation, but observing individual reputations can be cognitively costly. To ease this burden, people may rely on proxies such as stereotypes, or generalized reputations assigned to groups. Such stereotypes are less accurate than...

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Main Authors: Mari Kawakatsu, Sebastián Michel-Mata, Taylor A Kessinger, Corina E Tarnita, Joshua B Plotkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011862