Background Signal reliability poses a central problem for explaining the evolution of
communication. According to Zahavi's Handicap Principle, signals are honest only if they are …

A human solution to the problem of cooperation is the maintenance of informal reputation
hierarchies. Reputational information contributes to cooperation by providing guidelines …

Explaining the evolution of honest versus dishonest signals under conflicts of interest has
long posed a major challenge, but several recent developments should spur renewed …

How does the increasing publicness of decisions (due, eg, to social media) affect the total
costs of social signaling distortions? While pervasive signaling may induce pervasive …

Honest communication is a common phenomenon in animal behaviour, and is frequently
explained by appeal to the so-called handicap hypothesis by which signal costs deter …

My dissertation begins with the concluding lines of Attila Bartis's work titled Tranquillity,
which choice requires an explanation. Even those readers who are unfamiliar with the work …

In the first study the dissertation tests experimentally whether competition damage the
reliance on reputation in a non-iterative two-player Prisoner's Dilemma game with a …