Why people punish defectors. Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas.

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Journal of Theoretical Biology

• Publication date

  2001-01-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1006/JTBI.2000.2202PMID 11162054
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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