Le virtù del pettegolezzo

In this work a theory of gossip as a means for social control is proposed. Exercising social control roughly means to isolate and/or to punish cheaters. However, punishment is costly and it inevitably implies the problem of second-order cooperation. Moving from a cognitive model of social control and gossip, data from ethnographic studies and agent- based simulations are reported on to support the claim that gossip reduces the costs of social control without lowering its efficacy.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Conte
Rosaria
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Firenze , Italia
Source: 
Storia delle donne (Online) 6/7 (2011): 31–45.
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Conte, Rosaria/titolo:Le virtù del pettegolezzo/doi:/rivista:Storia delle donne (Online)/anno:2011/pagina_da:31/pagina_a:45/intervallo_pagine:31–45/volume:6/7
Date: 
2011
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/204719
Language: 
Ita
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di rosaria.conte
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