Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality

2000/09/01 by Herbert Gintis, HERBERT GINTIS · 1,150 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Altruism (biology) #Biology #Economics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Evolutionary biology #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Game theory #Helping behavior #Kin selection #Kinship #Microeconomics #Prosocial behavior #Psychology #Reciprocal #Reciprocal altruism #Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) #Social psychology #Sociality #Sociology #Strong reciprocity #Stylized fact

paper · doi:10.1006/jtbi.2000.2111

published in Journal of Theoretical Biology 206(2), 169-179 (Elsevier BV)

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