Strong reciprocity, cooperation, focal rules and deontological virtues

• Main Author: Largoza, Gerardo L.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Cooperation; Reciprocity (Psychology); Ethics; Applied Ethics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7788
• Institution: De La Salle University

Strong reciprocity, or the willingness of players to act as "conditional cooperators" who punish bad behaviour and reward good behaviour may be a more sophisticated explanation for the evolution of cooperation than folk theorems, but critics have argued that it is maladaptive and thus unab...