Five-year olds, but not chimpanzees, attempt to manage their reputations.

Virtually all theories of the evolution of cooperation require that cooperators find ways to interact with one another selectively, to the exclusion of cheaters. This means that individuals must make reputational judgments about others as cooperators, based on either direct or indirect evidence. Hum...

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Main Authors: Jan M Engelmann, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3485200?pdf=render