Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

The rise and fall of cooperation through reputation and group polarization

  • Jörg Gross,
  • Carsten K. W. De Dreu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08727-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Group membership can inform individuals’ decisions on whether to cooperate. Here, the authors show how cooperative groups themselves can emerge and change due to use of reputation heuristics (such as “the enemy of a friend is an enemy”), and how this destabilizes cooperation over time.