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SUBMITTER: Fischer I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3690892 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Fischer Ilan I Frid Alex A Goerg Sebastian J SJ Levin Simon A SA Rubenstein Daniel I DI Selten Reinhard R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130603 25
Although cooperation and trust are essential features for the development of prosperous populations, they also put cooperating individuals at risk for exploitation and abuse. Empirical and theoretical evidence suggests that the solution to the problem resides in the practice of mimicry and imitation, the expectation of opponent's mimicry and the reliance on similarity indices. Here we fuse the principles of enacted and expected mimicry and condition their application on two similarity indices to ...[more]