Article

Rethinking Reciprocity

2026-02-25

Abstract excerpt

<p>Reciprocity theory has a hallowed status in evolutionary social sciences because it provides a way to explain cooperation among un- related individuals. Theorists have created a large body of mathematical work based on the iterated prisoner’s dilemma game that explores which strategies are evolutionarily stable in a range of conditions including when there are behavioral errors. However, there is a mismatch bet...

Topics

Open a Topic to create a Post that cites this publication.

Identifiers and source

Literature Corpus work: 9f5ea954-a386-5435-bade-dccc6c2ebb3c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/e5zuc_v1

Open publication

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Rethinking ReciprocityDOI 10.31234/osf.io/e5zuc_v1Read

Evolution of stable reciprocity through the maintenance of discriminationSemantic proximity Read

26. CooperationSemantic proximity Read

Successful strategies in the voluntarily repeated Prisoner’s DilemmaSemantic proximity Read

Direct Reciprocity Under Uncertainty Does Not Explain One-Shot Cooperation, But It Can Explain Norm PsychologySemantic proximity Read

Chaos, oscillation and the evolution of indirect reciprocity in n-person games.Semantic proximity Read

Mutation enhances cooperation in direct reciprocity.Semantic proximity Read

Stochastic evolutionary dynamics of direct reciprocity.Semantic proximity Read

Emergent Prosocial Behavior During Dynamic Human Group FormationSemantic proximity Read

Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem.Semantic proximity Read

Humans display a 'cooperative phenotype' that is domain general and temporally stable.Semantic proximity Read

Direct Reciprocity Under Uncertainty Does Not Explain One-shot Cooperation, but Demonstrates the Benefits of a Norm PsychologySemantic proximity Read

Human Cooperation and the Crises of Climate Change, COVID-19, and MisinformationSemantic proximity Read