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Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans

2026-04-30

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<p>A necessary prerequisite for the accumulation of beneficial knowledge, or ‘cumulative cultural evolution’, is the sharing of information via social learning. Yet little work in the field of cultural evolution has examined the mechanisms that support information sharing in the face of exploitative information free-riding and information hoarding. We ran a series of online interactive experiments (N=716) combined...

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Literature Corpus work: 4d70fe2d-e669-5efe-980c-b604a2ad7f88
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jt8fg_v4

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