for cooperation to be part of an asymptotically stable equilibrium of an evolutionary dynamics of signaling norm …The article suggests a new explanation for cooperation in large, unstructured societies that avoids the restrictions … internalization, behavior and norm adoption. These conditions put the signaling costs of norm-adopters and non-adopters, the strength …

Economists have a long tradition in identifying the evolution of cooperation in large, unstructured societies as a … puzzle. We suggest a new explanation for cooperation which avoids restrictions of most previous attempts. Our explanation … deals with the role of internalized norms for cooperation in large unstructured populations. Even internalized norms, i …

cooperation. HollŠnder, however, did not define the characteristics of environments in which high valued approval is likely to … signaling motives. Our findings point to new institutions that rely on reward, rather than punishment, to efficiently promote …

We study the coevolution of cooperation, preferences and cooperative signals in an environment where individuals engage … 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 …