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A dominant social comparison heuristic unites alternative mechanisms for the evolution of indirect reciprocity
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Cooperation is a fundamental human trait but our understanding of how it functions remains incomplete. Indirect reciprocity is a particular case in point, where one-shot donations are made to unrelated beneficiaries without any guarantee of payback. Existing insights are largely from two independent perspectives: i) individual-level cognitive behaviour in decision making, and ii) identification of conditions that favour evolution of cooperation. We identify a fundamental connection between th...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 31459
- Publication date:
- 2016-08-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-07-15
- DOI:
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2045-2322
- ISSN:
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2045-2322
- Pmid:
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27515119
- Source identifiers:
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640507
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- English
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- Whitaker et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © The Author(s) 2016. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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