Honor, Reputation, and Reciprocity

Implicit Reputation Cues and Strong Reciprocity

Evolutionary psychologists argue that strong reciprocity is primarily shaped by an evolutionary history of repeated interactions in which it was in the self-interest of people to reciprocate favors. For this reason modern humans are hypothesized to respond to variations in all kinds of subtle reputational cues such as human voices in the environment, whether actions take place in the dark or du...

Propagation of Economic Inequality Through Reciprocity and Reputation.

Reciprocity and reputation are powerful tools for encouraging cooperation on a broad scale. Here, we highlight a potential side effect of these social phenomena: exacerbating economic inequality. In two novel economic games, we manipulated the amount of money with which participants were endowed and then gave them the opportunity to share resources with others. We found that people reciprocated...

Reputation and Reciprocity: Consequences for the Labour Relation

Recent evidence highlights the importance of social norms in many economic relations. However, many of these relationships are long-term and provide repeated game incentives for performance. We experimentally investigate interaction effects of reciprocity and repeated game incentives in two treatments (one-shot and repeated) of a gift-exchange game. In both treatments we observe reciprocity, wh...

Self-Interest, Reciprocity, and Participation in Online Reputation Systems

Abstract Reputation systems are emerging as an increasingly important component of online communities, helping elicit good behavior and cooperation among loosely connected and geographically dispersed economic agents. A deeper understanding of the factors that drive voluntary online feedback contribution is crucial to the long-term viability of such systems and of the online communities that re...

Evolutionary Pathways to Group Cooperation: Reputation, Reciprocity, and Signaling