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An eye for an eye: Reciprocity and the calibration of redress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Andrew Dellis  and
David Spurrett
Andrew Dellis
Affiliation:
Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics, Department of Economics, and Brain and Behaviour Initiative, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, 7935, Cape Town, South Africa. andrew.dellis@uct.ac.za
David Spurrett
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa. Spurrett@ukzn.ac.za
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Abstract

General systems for reciprocity explain the same phenomena as the target article's proposed revenge system, and can explain other cooperative phenomena. We need more reason to hypothesise a specific revenge system. In addition, the proposed calculus of revenge is less sensitive to absolute magnitudes of revenge than it should be.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 20
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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