The good, the bad, and the rare: memory for partners in social interactions.

For cooperation to evolve via direct reciprocity, individuals must track their partners' behavior to avoid exploitation. With increasing size of the interaction group, however, memory becomes error prone. To decrease memory effort, people could categorize partners into types, distinguishing coo...

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Main Authors: Jenny Volstorf, Jörg Rieskamp, Jeffrey R Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21559490/?tool=EBI