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Evolutionary psychology

the proposal that one-shot generosity arises because mistaking a repeated interaction for a one-shot one is costly, so cooperation is the safer default.

In evolutionary psychology, big mistake hypothesis refers to the proposal that one-shot generosity arises because mistaking a repeated interaction for a one-shot one is costly, so cooperation is the safer default. This meaning comes from Delton (2011) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

  1. Delton, A. W., Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2011). Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(32), 13335-13340. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102131108

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