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SUBMITTER: Jordan JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4978259 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jordan Jillian J JJ Hoffman Moshe M Nowak Martin A MA Rand David G DG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160720 31
Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental evidence that reputation concerns provide an answer: people cooperate in an uncalculating way to signal their trustworthiness to observers. We present two economic game experiments in which uncalculating versus calculating decision-making is operationalized by either a subject' ...[more]