Gossip as an alternative for direct observation in games of indirect reciprocity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 44, 2007, Pages 17435-17440

  Sommerfeld, Ralf D ^a   Krambeck, Hans Jürgen ^a   Semmann, Dirk ^b   Milinski, Manfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Language; Manipulation; Reputation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNICATION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36849041957     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704598104     Document Type: Article

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