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

Abstract excerpt

Humans in many societies cooperate in economic experiments at much higher levels than would be expected if their goal was maximizing economic returns, even when their interactions are anonymous and one-shot. This is a puzzle because paying a cost to benefit another in one-shot interactions gives no direct or indirect benefits to the cooperator. This paper explores the logic of two competing evolutionary hypotheses...

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• Biological Evolution
• Cooperative Behavior
• Decision Making
• Game Theory
• Interpersonal Relations
• Models, Statistical
• Phenotype
• Time Factors

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DOI

10.1101/004135