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Non-Payoff Monotonic Dynamics in an Evolutionary Game of Courtship

Physics and Society 2015-08-26 v2 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

We propose an evolutionary coordination game to formalize a simplified model of the evolution of strategies during human courtship. The dynamics, derived from the consideration of experimental observations on human social behavior driven by self-esteem, turns out to be non-payoff monotonic. This property gives rise to nontrivial evolution in the players' strategies, which we study both numerically and analytically.

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@article{arxiv.1508.03529,
  title  = {Non-Payoff Monotonic Dynamics in an Evolutionary Game of Courtship},
  author = {Andrés Chacoma and Marcelo N. Kuperman and Damián H. Zanette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03529},
  year   = {2015}
}