The language of cooperation: Reputation and honest signalling

S. Számadó; D. Balliet; F. Giardini; E. A. Power; K. Takács

doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0286

The language of cooperation: Reputation and honest signalling

S. Számadó^*, D. Balliet, F. Giardini, E. A. Power, K. Takács

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Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of cooperation is challenging to explain in a world of self-interested individuals. There is overwhelming empirical evidence from different disciplines that reputation and gossip promote cooperation in humans in different contexts. Despite decades of research, important details of reputation systems are still unclear. Our goal with this theme issue is to promote an interdisciplinary approach that allows us to explore and understand the evolution and maintenance of reputation systems with a special emphasis on gossip and honest signalling. The theme issue is organized around four main questions: What are the necessary conditions for reputation-based systems? What is the content and context of reputation systems? How can reputations promote cooperation? And, what is the role of gossip in maintaining reputation systems and thus cooperation? This article is part of the theme issue 'The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling'.

Original language	English
Article number	20200286
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences
Volume	376
Issue number	1838
Early online date	4 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0286
Publication status	Published - 22 Nov 2021

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S.S. and K.T. were supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office—NKFIH (OTKA) grant no. K 132250. K.T. was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 648693). Acknowledgements

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S.S. and K.T. were supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office—NKFIH (OTKA) grant no. K 132250. K.T. was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 648693). Acknowledgements

Funders	Funder number
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
European Research Council
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund	132250
Horizon 2020	648693
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
National Research, Development and Innovation Office

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cooperation
gossip
honest signalling
reputation

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