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Evolving righteousness in a corrupt world.

Edgar A Duéñez-Guzmán1, Suzanne Sadedin

  • 1Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. duenez@bio.kuleuven.be

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|September 18, 2012
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Summary
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Small payments can shift societies from corrupt cooperation to righteous punishment, enhancing wellbeing. This finding explains costly punishment and highlights corruption

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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary game theory
  • Behavioral economics
  • Social dynamics

Background:

  • Cooperation is vital in societies, often maintained by costly punishment.
  • Corruption (punishers defecting without penalty) can sustain cooperation but lowers wellbeing.
  • Many societies exhibit high cooperation with low corruption and high wellbeing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate mechanisms that promote righteous punishment over corrupt cooperation.
  • To determine if financial incentives can alter societal structures towards greater wellbeing.
  • To explain the persistence of costly punishment in social systems.

Main Methods:

  • Game theory modeling to simulate societal interactions.
  • Analysis of conditions favoring corruption versus righteousness.
  • Introduction of small payments from cooperators to punishers in models.

Main Results:

  • Small payments destabilize corrupt societies, promoting punishment without corruption (righteousness).
  • Righteousness can spread and stabilize societies, even with power inequalities.
  • Righteous societies demonstrate higher stability and wellbeing than corrupt ones.

Conclusions:

  • Financial incentives can transition societies from suboptimal corruption to optimal righteousness.
  • Corruption is an inefficient strategy for maintaining cooperation compared to righteousness.
  • This model explains the evolution and maintenance of costly punishing behaviors.