Altruistic Behavior and Cooperation: The Role of Intrinsic Expectation When Reputational Information is Incomplete

Altruistic behavior is known to be conditional on the level of altruism of others. However, people often have no information, or incomplete information, about the altruistic reputation of others, for example when the reputation was obtained in a different social or economic context. As a consequence...

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Main Authors: Jacintha Ellers, Nadia C. E. van der Pool
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800105