The return of reciprocity: a psychological approach to the evolution of cooperation |
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| Authors: | Alejandro Rosas |
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| Institution: | (1) Departamento de Filosofia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogota, Colombia |
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| Abstract: | Recent developments in evolutionary game theory argue the superiority of punishment over reciprocity as accounts of large-scale
human cooperation. I introduce a distinction between a behavioral and a psychological perspective on reciprocity and punishment
to question this view. I examine a narrow and a wide version of a psychological mechanism for reciprocity and conclude that a narrow version is clearly distinguishable from punishment, but inadequate for
humans; whereas a wide version is applicable to humans but indistinguishable from punishment. The mechanism for reciprocity
in humans emerges as a meta-norm that governs both retaliation and punishment. I make predictions open to empirical investigation
to confirm or disconfirm this view.
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| Keywords: | Evolutionary theory of cooperation Experimental economics Punishment Reciprocity |
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