CDR: Re: reputation required for evolution of cooperation in _Science_
Eric Murray
ericm at lne.com
Fri Sep 22 13:30:59 PDT 2000
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 04:10:26PM -0400, David Honig wrote:
>
>
> Science V 289 8 Sept 2000 p 1773-1775
>
> "Fairness vs Reason in the Ultimatum Game"
> Nowak, Page, Sigmund
>
> (from the abstract)
>
> "The rational solution, suggested by game theory, is
> for the proposer to offer the smallest possible share
> and for teh responder to accept it. If humans play
> the game, however, the most frequent outcome is a fair
> share. In this paper, we develop an evolutionary
> approach to the Ultimatum Game. We show that fairness
> will evolve if the proposer can obtain some information
> on what deals the responder has accepted in the past.
> Hence, the evolution of fairness, similarly to the
> evolution of cooperation, is linked to reputation"
This also mentioned in the Economist in the last couple weeks.
Their article made the obvious ebay/auction tie.
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