ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Reputation-based reciprocity in human-bot and human-human networks.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Engagement as a mechanism of action in collaborative learning health systems.Learning health systems · 2025Article
- Cooperation is not rewarded by friendship, but generous and selfish students repel each other in social networks.PloS one · 2025Article
- Cooperation and social organization depend on weighing private and public reputations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Indirect reciprocity undermines indirect reciprocity destabilizing large-scale cooperation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Group Formation and the Evolution of Human Social Organization.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Reputations for treatment of outgroup members can prevent the emergence of political segregation in cooperative networks.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Human group size puzzle: why it is odd that we live in large societies.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Clustering drives cooperation on reputation networks, all else fixed.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Factors related to the social network of core members of elderly care service social organizations: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Four Puzzles of Reputation-Based Cooperation : Content, Process, Honesty, and Structure.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- The effects of reputation on inequality in network cooperation games.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Reputation and socio-ecology in humans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Evaluating mechanisms that could support credible reputations and cooperation: cross-checking and social bonding.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- When does reputation lie? Dynamic feedbacks between costly signals, social capital and social prominence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Reputation has been shown to provide an informal solution to the problem of cooperation in human societies. After reviewing models that connect reputations and cooperation, we address how reputation results from information exchange embedded in a social network that changes endogenously itself. Theoretical studies highlight that network topologies have different effects on the extent of cooperation, since they can foster or hinder the flow of reputational information. Subsequently, we review models and empirical studies that intend to grasp the coevolution of reputations, cooperation and social networks. We identify open questions in the literature concerning how networks affect the accuracy of reputations, the honesty of shared information and the spread of reputational information. Certain network topologies may facilitate biased beliefs and intergroup competition or in-group identity formation that could lead to high cooperation within but conflicts between different subgroups of a network. Our review covers theoretical, experimental and field studies across various disciplines that target these questions and could explain how the dynamics of interactions and reputations help or prevent the establishment and sustainability of cooperation in small- and large-scale societies. This article is part of the theme issue 'The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling'.
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