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SUBMITTER: Sommerfeld RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2077274 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sommerfeld Ralf D RD Krambeck Hans-Jürgen HJ Semmann Dirk D Milinski Manfred M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20071018 44
Communication about social topics is abundant in human societies, and many functions have been attributed to such gossiping. One of these proposed functions is the management of reputations. Reputation by itself has been shown to have a strong influence on cooperation dynamics in games of indirect reciprocity, and this notion helps to explain the observed high level of cooperation in humans. Here we designed a game to test a widespread assumption that gossip functions as a vector for the transmi ...[more]