The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity

FP Santos, JM Pacheco… - … Transactions of the …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Indirect reciprocity (IR) is a key mechanism to understand cooperation among unrelated
individuals. It involves reputations and complex information processing, arising from social …

Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences

M Testori, TD Dores Cruz… - Social and Personality …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sharing negative gossip has been found to be pivotal for fostering cooperation in social
groups. The positive function gossip serves for groups suggests that gossipers should be …

The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling

S Számadó, D Balliet, F Giardini… - … Transactions of the …, 2021‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large-scale non-kin cooperation is a unique ingredient of human success. This type of
cooperation is challenging to explain in a world of self-interested individuals. There is …

A mechanistic model of gossip, reputations, and cooperation

M Kawakatsu, TA Kessinger, JB Plotkin - Proceedings of the National …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Social reputations facilitate cooperation: those who help others gain a good reputation,
making them more likely to receive help themselves. But when people hold private views of …

Nasty and noble notes: Interdependence structures drive self-serving gossip

TD Dores Cruz, R van der Lee… - Personality and …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Much information people receive about others reaches them via gossip. But is this gossip
trustworthy? We examined this in a scenario study (N senders= 350, N observations= 700) …

Letters of recommendation as institutionalized gossip: Tie strength and the advocacy-accuracy tradeoff in brokering

B Hadar, N Halevy - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Gossip is both common and consequential. People often share reputational information
about others in their absence, and this ubiquitous practice powerfully shapes impressions …

The Importance of Conceptual Clarity and Methodological Diversity for Studying Confidential Gossip–a Response and Addition to Fan et al.(2021)

B Beersma, E Martinescu, M Testori… - Collabra …, 2024‏ - online.ucpress.edu
In their essay 'Confidential gossip and organization studies', Fan, Grey, and Kärreman
(2021) argue that confidential gossip is a distinctive sub-category of gossip that has …

Why do people gossip? Reputation promotes honest reputational information sharing

H Tan, T Jiang, N Ma - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Gossip, sharing information about an absent person, is an important way of spreading
reputational information, crucial in fostering human cooperation. However, why should …

Group formation and the evolution of human social organization

CKW De Dreu, J Gross… - … on Psychological Science, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Humans operate in groups that are oftentimes nested in multilayered collectives such as
work units within departments and companies, neighborhoods within cities, and regions …

What matters most in supporting cooperation, the gossip content or the gossiper's intention? Simulating motive interpretation in gossip dynamics

M Testori, F Giardini, TD Dores Cruz… - Journal of Artificial …, 2023‏ - gala.gre.ac.uk
Gossip provides individuals a great volume of information, which allows them to make
informed decisions and better adapt to the environment around them. Like all pieces of …