The leading eight: Social norms that can maintain cooperation by indirect reciprocity

The Evolution of Cooperation

Robert Axelrod, W D Hamilton · Science · 1981 · 20.3K citations

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The Evolution of Cooperation.

Terry Connolly, Robert Axelrod · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1984 · 3.9K citations

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Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring

Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund · Nature · 1998 · 2.7K citations

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Social Norms and Community Enforcement

Michihiro Kandori · The Review of Economic Studies · 1992 · 1.6K citations

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Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups

Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson · Ethology and Sociobiology · 1992 · 1.5K citations

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