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The evolution of family reputation extends indirect reciprocity

2026-08-29

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Reputation plays a major role in supporting cooperation among unrelated individuals through indirect reciprocity. By helping others, individuals build a good personal reputation and receive greater benefits from future partners. Most models of indirect reciprocity assume that a person's reputation reflects only their own behaviour. Yet in many societies, people are also judged by their family's reputation. How fam...

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Literature Corpus work: 37f375dc-c5e5-549d-be7d-b79d15b49cf6
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.27.747476

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