Cooperation under indirect reciprocity and imitative trust

Indirect reciprocity, a key concept in behavioral experiments and evolutionary game theory, provides a mechanism that allows reciprocal altruism to emerge in a population of self-regarding individuals even when repeated interactions between pairs of actors are unlikely. Recent empirical evidence sho...

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Main Authors: Saavedra, S, Smith, D, Reed-Tsochas, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
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