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EVILTONGUE

No Sword Bites So Fiercly as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, but Enhances Cooperation

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Funder: European CommissionProject code: 648693 Call for proposal: ERC-2014-CoG
Funded under: H2020 | ERC | ERC-COG Overall Budget: 1,973,500 EURFunder Contribution: 1,973,500 EUR
Status: On going
Start Date
01 Dec 2015
End Date
31 Mar 2021
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Social norms in general, and norms of cooperation in particular, are the cement of all human societies. For the difficult problems of the maintenance and enforcement of social norms and of cooperation, humans have developed surprisingly complex solutions. Reputation mechanisms and gossip are certainly among the compound informal solutions. According to common wisdom, gossip channels mainly negative and often fictitious information. If it is so, how can dishonest gossip and the resulting biased reputations legitimize social order and promote cooperation? This is the main puzzle we tackle in the proposed project exploiting a wide scale of instruments. We use analy...

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LiU, CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES

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