Department of Sociology and Communication, BUTE, Budapest, Hungary.
CSS-RECENS, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2021 Nov 22;376(1838):20200286. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0286. Epub 2021 Oct 4.
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 overwhelming empirical evidence from different disciplines that reputation and gossip promote cooperation in humans in different contexts. Despite decades of research, important details of reputation systems are still unclear. Our goal with this theme issue is to promote an interdisciplinary approach that allows us to explore and understand the evolution and maintenance of reputation systems with a special emphasis on gossip and honest signalling. The theme issue is organized around four main questions: What are the necessary conditions for reputation-based systems? What is the content and context of reputation systems? How can reputations promote cooperation? And, what is the role of gossip in maintaining reputation systems and thus cooperation? This article is part of the theme issue 'The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling'.
大规模的非亲属合作是人类成功的独特因素。在一个以自利个体为特征的世界中，这种合作形式很难解释。来自不同学科的压倒性经验证据表明，声誉和八卦在不同情境下促进了人类的合作。尽管经过了几十年的研究，但声誉系统的一些重要细节仍不清楚。我们本期特刊的目标是促进跨学科的研究方法，以便我们能够探索和理解声誉系统的进化和维持，特别强调八卦和诚实信号。本期特刊围绕四个主要问题组织：基于声誉的系统的必要条件是什么？声誉系统的内容和背景是什么？声誉如何促进合作？以及，八卦在维持声誉系统从而促进合作方面扮演了什么角色？本文是特刊“合作的语言：声誉与诚实信号”的一部分。
