ArticleNature communications2022
Reputation effects drive the joint evolution of cooperation and social rewarding.
Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Impact of social rewarding in dynamic shop floor environments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Evolution of trust in theJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- The social leverage effect: Institutions transform weak reputation effects into strong incentives for cooperation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Evidence of direct and indirect reciprocity in network-structured economic games.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Self-serving reward and punishment: evidence from the laboratory.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Reputation effects drive the joint evolution of cooperation and social rewarding.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
People routinely cooperate with each other, even when cooperation is costly. To further encourage such pro-social behaviors, recipients often respond by providing additional incentives, for example by offering rewards. Although such incentives facilitate cooperation, the question remains how these incentivizing behaviors themselves evolve, and whether they would always be used responsibly. Herein, we consider a simple model to systematically study the co-evolution of cooperation and different rewarding policies. In our model, both social and antisocial behaviors can be rewarded, but individuals gain a reputation for how they reward others. By characterizing the game's equilibria and by simulating evolutionary learning processes, we find that reputation effects systematically favor cooperation and social rewarding. While our baseline model applies to pairwise interactions in well-mixed populations, we obtain similar conclusions under assortment, or when individuals interact in larger groups. According to our model, rewards are most effective when they sway others to cooperate. This view is consistent with empirical observations suggesting that people reward others to ultimately benefit themselves.
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