jbaptistandre.bsky.social
Evolutionary biology / Evolutionary social sciences / Evolutionary psychology
CNRS researcher @ Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL & Institut Jean Nicod
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Want to learn more? Check out the paper here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Just like we've designed material technologies to harness physical laws, we've created social technologies—institutions—to harness social laws, enabling forms of cooperation that would be unthinkable otherwise.
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Think of a pulley: small effort, big lift. Institutions are like that—they take the modest incentives of reputation and turn them into powerful drivers of large-scale cooperation.
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Our model shows that institutions can be entirely powered by reputation, yet still amplify its effects to achieve far more cooperation than reputation alone could.
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Yet, institutions aren’t merely a byproduct of reputation-based cooperation; they actively shape it.
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Human cooperation runs on reputation—and so do institutions. They need it to curb corruption, prevent abuse of power, in short, promote cooperation over cheating.
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Want to learn more? 📄
Read our study: "The Social Leverage Effect: Institutions Transform Weak Reputation Effects into Strong Incentives for Cooperation"
👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#Cooperation #Institutions #CulturalEvolution #GameTheory
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