Gossip for social control in natural and artificial societies

In this work we propose a theory of gossip as a means for social control. Exercising social control roughly means to isolate and to punish cheaters. However, punishment is costly and it inevitably implies the problem of second-order cooperation. Moving from a cognitive model of gossip, we report data from ethnographic studies and agent-based simulations to support our claim that gossip reduces the costs of social control without lowering its efficacy

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Giardini, Francesca
Conte, Rosaria
Publisher: 
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA,, Stati Uniti d'America
Source: 
Simulation (S. Diego Calif.) 88 (2012): 18–32. doi:10.1177/0037549711406912
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Giardini, Francesca; Conte, Rosaria/titolo:Gossip for social control in natural and artificial societies/doi:10.1177/0037549711406912/rivista:Simulation (S. Diego Calif.)/anno:2012/pagina_da:18/pagina_a:32/intervallo_pagine:18–3
Date: 
2012
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/221898
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037549711406912
info:doi:10.1177/0037549711406912
http://sim.sagepub.com/
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di rosaria.conte
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