Collective punishment is more effective than collective reward for promoting cooperation

Collective punishment and reward are usually regarded as two potential mechanisms to explain the evolution of cooperation. Both scenarios, however, seem problematic to understand cooperative behavior, because they can raise the second-order free-rider problem and many organisms are not able to discr...

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Main Authors: Gao, Lei, Wang, Zhen, Pansini, Riccardo, Li, Yao-Tang, Wang, Rui-Wu
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669458/