2013/07/31 by Paul L. Hooper, Paul Hooper, Simon DeDeo +5
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Plant and animal studies #Primate Behavior and Ecology #cs.SI #nlin.AO #physics.soc-ph #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/e15114932
published as Entropy 2013, 15, 4932-4955 · 24 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; expanded results and discussion sections; matches published version
openalex publication_date 2013/11/13 · arxiv created 2013/11/17 · arxiv updated 2013/11/19 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Reciprocity is a vital feature of social networks, but relatively little is known about its temporal structure or the mechanisms underlying its persistence in real world behavior. In pursuit of these two questions, we study the stationary and dynamical signals of reciprocity in a network of manioc beer (Spanish: chicha; Tsimane’: shocdye’) drinking events in a Tsimane’ village in lowland Bolivia. At the stationary level, our analysis reveals that social exchange within the community is heterogeneously patterned according to kinship and spatial proximity. A positive relationship between the frequencies at which two families host each other, controlling for kinship and proximity, provides evidence for stationary reciprocity. Our analysis of the dynamical structure of this network presents a novel method for the study of conditional, or non-stationary, reciprocity effects. We find evidence that short-timescale reciprocity (within three days) is present among non- and distant-kin pairs; conversely, we find that levels of cooperation among close kin can be accounted for on the stationary hypothesis alone.