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We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual.
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We investigate the role personality plays in Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma (FRPD) games. Even after controlling … the predicted probability of cooperation by a subject with modal demographic characteristics from 67.9% to 80.6%. …
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Cooperation is essential for complex biological and social systems and explaining its evolutionary origins remains a … central question in several disciplines. Tag systems are a class of models demonstrating the evolution of cooperation between …
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This paper examines how a religious festival (Ramadan) and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and costly … punishment in a public goods experiment. We find significantly higher cooperation levels outside the festival among less …
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The self-organization into cooperative regimes of a system of "selfish" agents playing the pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma game (PDG) is analyzed using a simple agent-based model. At each time step t, the agents divide into those who cooperate (C) and those who defect (D). The agents have no memory...
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-)establishing cooperation. The strategy is compared to well-known strategies in the domain and results presented. The initial findings, as well …
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considered. We find that the "intelligence" of the players plays a crucial role in the way players learn to cooperate. The …
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cooperation in an artificial society. In this framework the environmental pressure to cooperate is controllable by a single … results from experiments that implemented and tested environments based upon this new model of cooperation. The results show … that the pressure to cooperate leads to the evolution of communication skills facilitating cooperation. Furthermore, higher …
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Cooperation among self-interested individuals pervades nature and seems essential to explain several landmarks in the … cooperation. In this work we approach the problem from a different angle. We consider a system of adaptive agents, in a two … steady states are characterised by different degrees of cooperation, "economic geographies" (population structure and maps of …
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This paper differentiates between three motives behind punishment in a social dilemma: minimizing inequalities, retaliation against unfair acts, and spitefulness. The experiment shows that cooperators and defectors differently respond to intentions and thereby substantiates Falk et al....
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