Title: Reputation is required for cooperation to emerge in dynamic networks
Abstract: Melamed, Harrell, and Simpson have recently reported on an experiment which appears to show that cooperation can arise in a dynamic network without reputational knowledge, i.e., purely via dynamics [1]. We believe that their experimental design is actually not testing this, in so far as players do know the last action of their current partners before making a choice on their own next action and subsequently deciding which link to cut. Had the authors given no information at all, the result would be a decline in cooperation as shown in [2].
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-15
Language: en
Type: preprint
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