# Costly signaling

`kaal:entity:costly-signaling`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `costly-signaling`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782193-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-009) [empirical/evidenced] -- Sacralized law generates more stable and successful institutions than secular belief systems, as shown by evidence that religious communes outlast secular communes at every stage of their life course.
  > In fact, sacralized law has been shown to generate more stable and successful insti- tutions than secular beliefs. Sosis explains "religious communes are more likely than secular communes to survive at every stage of their life course."
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193
- [3782203-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-031) [mechanism/argued] -- Charging admission to a DAO disincentivizes defection because the sunk cost of joining makes cheating expensive when rejoining would require paying again, a mechanism the authors identify as costly signaling that works better the more cheaters the surrounding environment contains.
  > First, we can disincentivize defection/betrayal by charging admission to the DAO. With the sunk cost of joining, it is more expensive to cheat, since then it would be expensive to rejoin even if members could be anonymous. This is described as costly signaling.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

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