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benefits on others at a cost to themselves. Altruism is thus a strictly dominated strategy and cannot survive if agents are … can survive in such a world if they are grouped together, so that the benefits of Altruism are enjoyed primarily by other …
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one's type or group) on cooperation in a standard prisoner's dilemma environment. Subjects can repeatedly choose between … viscosity leads to a sharp increase in overall cooperation rates and in addition positively affects the subjects' intrinsic …
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We consider a local interaction model with a population on an h dimensional torus, in which in each round of play a random player gets a learning draw. This player plays a k+1 action stage game with players in his neighborhood, compares his own average payoff with the average payoff of the...
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The standard method when analyzing the problem of cooperation using evolutionary game theory is to assume that people … illustrate how reputation based choice of opponents can explain both the emergence and deterioration of cooperation. We show that … empirical and experimental evidence of cooperation is consistent with our hypothesis that people behave so as to minimize the …
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We analyze a cooperation game in an evolutionary environment. Agents make noisy observations of opponents' propensity … two agents agree to play. Pareto optimal cooperation is evolutionarily stable when reputation perfectly reflects … propensity to cooperate. With some reputation noise, there will be at least some cooperation. Individual concern for reputation …
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The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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depends on both the individual and the context. For example, non-zero-sum cooperation (e.g. in social dilemmas like the … favor social dilemma cooperation regardless of gender, but only favor DG giving among women. Here I present meta …-analytic evidence in support of this prediction. In 31 studies examining social dilemma cooperation (N=13,447), I find that promoting …
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The standard method when analyzing the problem of cooperation using evolutionary game theory is to assume that people … illustrate how reputation based choice of opponents can explain both the emergence and deterioration of cooperation. We show that … empirical and experimental evidence of cooperation is consistent with our hypothesis that people behave so as to minimize the …
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We analyze a cooperation game and a coordination game in an evolutionary environment. Agents make noisy observations of … takes place when two agents agree to play. Socially optimal cooperation is evolutionarily stable when reputation perfectly … reflects propensity to cooperate. With some reputation noise, there will be at least some cooperation. Individual concern for …
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We analyze a cooperation game in an evolutionary environment. Agents make noisy observations of opponents’ propensity … two agents agree to play. Pareto optimal cooperation is evolutionarily stable when reputation perfectly reflects … propensity to cooperate. With some reputation noise, there will be at least some cooperation. Individual concern for reputation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645210