Le virtù del pettegolezzo
In this work a theory of gossip as a means for social control is proposed. Exercising social control roughly means to isolate and/or to punish cheaters. However, punishment is costly and it inevitably implies the problem of second-order cooperation. Moving from a cognitive model of social control an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Storia delle Donne |
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| Online Access: | http://ejour-fup.unifi.it/index.php/sdd/article/view/9605 |