Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation
Reputation monitoring and the punishment of cheats are thought to be crucial to the viability and maintenance of human cooperation in large groups of non-kin. However, since the cost of policing moral norms must fall to those in the group, policing is itself a public good subject to exploitation by...
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Elsevier
2011
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