Deception Undermines the Stability of Cooperation in Games of Indirect Reciprocity.

Indirect reciprocity is often claimed as one of the key mechanisms of human cooperation. It works only if there is a reputational score keeping and each individual can inform with high probability which other individuals were good or bad in the previous round. Gossip is often proposed as a mechanism...

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Main Authors: Szabolcs Számadó, Ferenc Szalai, István Scheuring
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4732813?pdf=render