in a signaling-extended prisoner's dilemma. We identify a new type of evolutionary equilibrium - a transitional … behavior, preferences, and signaling. We thereby offer an explanation for persistent regularities observed in laboratory and … signaling costs between 'conditional cooperators' and 'opportunists.' Indeed, and quite surprisingly, a transitional equilibrium …

for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm … internalization, behavior and norm adoption. These conditions put the signaling costs of norm-adopters and non-adopters, the strength …

contributing to the public good. The model combines a follower's concern for fairness and informational signaling about … goods games that were based on only signaling information (i.e., about the quality of the public good or the return to …

youngsters about social norms. We show that this signaling role provides sufficient incentives to sustain costly punishing …-based mechanisms are fragile, since punishment is a more compelling signaling device (in a sense that we make precise). …

norms on cooperation. We find that under the signaling mechanism, less cooperative players disguise themselves in the rule …-following game, but this does not decrease cooperation overall. More importantly, the signaling mechanism has a heterogeneous effect … decreases cooperation in rule-breaking groups. Finally, the signaling mechanism tends to offset the decline of contributions …

that government could have instead used a mediated counter-strike that would have created less mobilization. The answer to … existence of private information forces the counter-strike policy to be suboptimal for the government …