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Honest smiles as a costly signal in social exchange

  • Samuele Centorrino (a1), Elodie Djemai (a1), Astrid Hopfensitz (a1), Manfred Milinski (a2) and Paul Seabright (a1)...
Abstract

Smiling can be interpreted as a costly signal of future benefits from cooperation between the individual smiling and the individual to whom the smile is directed. The target article by Niedenthal et al. gives little attention to the possible mechanisms by which smiling may have evolved. In our view, there are strong reasons to think that smiling has the key characteristics of a costly signal.

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