Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness
Volume: 113, Issue: 31, Pages: 8658 - 8663
Published: Jul 20, 2016
Abstract
Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental evidence that reputation concerns provide an answer: people cooperate in an uncalculating way to signal their trustworthiness to observers. We present two economic game experiments in which uncalculating versus calculating...
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Title
Uncalculating cooperation is used to signal trustworthiness
Published Date
Jul 20, 2016
Volume
113
Issue
31
Pages
8658 - 8663
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