Strong reciprocity is not uncommon in the “wild”

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (1):38-39 (2012)
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Abstract

Guala is right to draw attention to the difficulty of extrapolating from the experimental evidence for weak or strong reciprocity to what is observed in the However, there may be more strong reciprocity in real-world communities than he allows for, as strikingly illustrated in the example of the Mafia

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