If social exchange has been important over our evolutionary history, then we should be sensitive to those who accept benefits without fulfilling their side of the exchange. This assumed cognitive mechanism is referred to as the

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The cheater detection module is a proposed cognitive mechanism that evolved to detect individuals who accept benefits without fulfilling their side of social exchanges. This is based on the idea of reciprocal altruism, which suggests that individuals in social groups engage in mutually beneficial exchanges to increase their fitness. Thus, the ability to detect cheaters would have been important for maintaining the stability of these exchanges over evolutionary history. The other choices (bounded rationality heuristic, hazard management system, social contract algorithm) are not directly related to this concept.

If Social Exchange Has Been Important Over Our Evolutionary History