ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Emotions and courtship help bonded pairs cooperate, but emotional agents are vulnerable to deceit.
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- The coevolution of cognition and sociality.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the function of greeting display in a long-term monogamous songbird, the Java sparrow.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Feelings and flirtations foster long-term cooperation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Naturalistic generative narratives reveal effects of social characteristics on decision-making.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Coordinated pair bonds are common in birds and also occur in many other taxa. How do animals solve the social dilemmas they face in coordinating with a partner? We developed an evolutionary model to explore this question, based on observations that a) neuroendocrine feedback provides emotional bookkeeping which is thought to play a key role in vertebrate social bonds and b) these bonds are developed and maintained via courtship interactions that include low-stakes social dilemmas. Using agent-based simulation, we found that emotional bookkeeping and courtship sustained cooperation in the iterated prisoner's dilemma in noisy environments, especially when combined. However, when deceitful defection was possible at low cost, courtship often increased cooperation, whereas emotional bookkeeping decreased it.
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