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Social Norms of Cooperation in Small-Scale Societies
Indirect reciprocity, besides providing a convenient framework to address the evolution of moral systems, offers a simple and plausible explanation for the prevalence of cooperation among unrelated individuals. By helping someone, an individual may increase her/his reputation, which may change the pre-disposition of others to help her/him in the future. This, however, depends on what is reckoned as a good or a bad action. Pacheco et al.
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Citation: (2016) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 12(1) January 2016. PLoS Comput Biol 12(1): ev12.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v12.i01
Published: January 29, 2016
Copyright: © 2016 Pacheco et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Indirect reciprocity, besides providing a convenient framework to address the evolution of moral systems, offers a simple and plausible explanation for the prevalence of cooperation among unrelated individuals. By helping someone, an individual may increase her/his reputation, which may change the pre-disposition of others to help her/him in the future. This, however, depends on what is reckoned as a good or a bad action. Pacheco et al.
Image Credit: Pacheco et al.