The content and structure of reputation domains across human societies: a view from the evolutionary social sciences.

ABSTRACT: Reputations are an essential feature of human sociality and the evolution of cooperation and group living. Much scholarship has focused on reputations, yet typically on a narrow range of domains (e.g. prosociality and aggressiveness), usually in isolation. Humans can develop reputations, however, from any collective information. We conducted exploratory analyses on the content, distribution and structure of reputation domain diversity across cultures, using the Human Relations Area Files ethnographic database. After coding ethnographic texts on reputations from 153 cultures, we used hierarchical modelling, cluster analysis and text analysis to provide an empirical view of reputation domains across societies. Findings suggest: (i) reputational domains vary cross-culturally, yet reputations

SUBMITTER: Garfield ZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487742 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature