Strong links promote the emergence of cooperative elites

• Main Authors: Gallo, Edoardo, Riyanto, Yohanes E., Teh, Tat-How, Roy, Nilanjan
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Human Behaviour; Mathematics And Computing; Social sciences::Economic development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85329; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49795
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The maintenance of cooperative behavior is fundamental for the prosperity of human societies. Empirical studies show that high cooperation is frequently associated with the presence of strong social ties, but they are silent on whether a causal mechanism exists, how it operates, and what features of...