Indirect reciprocity with negative assortment and limited information can promote cooperation.

ABSTRACT: Cooperation is ubiquitous in biological and social systems, even though cooperative behavior is often costly and at risk of exploitation by non-cooperators. Several studies have demonstrated that indirect reciprocity, whereby some members of a group observe the behaviors of their peers and use this information to discriminate against previously uncooperative agents in the future, can promote prosocial behavior. Some studies have shown that differential propensities of interacting among and between different types of agents (interaction assortment) can increase the effectiveness of indirect reciprocity. No previous studies have, however, considered differential propensities of observing the behaviors of different types of agents (information assortment). Furthermore, most previous studies h

SUBMITTER: Brush E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853132 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature