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We generalize the model of Gallice and Monzon (2019) to incorporate a public goods game with groups, position uncertainty, and observational learning. Contributions are simultaneous within groups, but groups play sequentially based on their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-13 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Jorge Bruno , Renaud Foucart , Sonali SenGupta

The success of modern civilization is built upon widespread cooperation in human society, deciphering the mechanisms behind has being a major goal for centuries. A crucial fact is, however, largely missing in most prior studies that games…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-03 Qinqin Wang , Rizhou Liang , Jiqiang Zhang , Guozhong Zheng , Lin Ma , Li Chen

"Personal responsibility", one of the basic principles of modern law, requires one to be responsible for what he did. However, personal responsibility is far from the only norm ruling human interactions, especially in social and economic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-15 Guocheng Wang , Qi Su , Long Wang

Cooperation is ubiquitous ranging from multicellular organisms to human societies. Population structures indicating individuals' limited interaction ranges are crucial to understand this issue. But it is still at large to what extend…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Aming Li , Bin Wu , Long Wang

Cooperation often depends on individuals avoiding exploitation and interacting preferentially with other cooperators. We explore how context-dependent migration influences the evolution of cooperation in spatially structured populations.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-03 Dhaker Kroumi

Coordination and cooperation between humans and autonomous agents in cooperative games raises interesting questions of human decision making and behaviour changes. Here we report our findings from a group formation game in a small-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-21 Tuomas Takko , Kunal Bhattacharya , Daniel Monsivais , Kimmo Kaski

The basic social dilemma is frequently captured by a public goods game where participants decide simultaneously whether to support a common pool or not and after the enhanced contributions are distributed uniformly among all competitors.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-21 Attila Szolnoki , Xiaojie Chen

Actions such as sharing food and cooperating to reach a common goal have played a fundamental role in the evolution of human societies. These good actions may not maximise the actor's payoff, but they maximise the other's payoff.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-18 Valerio Capraro , Alessandra Marcelletti

A large body of empirical evidence suggests that humans are willing to engage in costly punishment of defectors in public goods games. Based on such pieces of evidence, it is suggested that punishment serves an important role in promoting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-25 Mohammad Salahshour

Recent research has identified interactions between networks as crucial for the outcome of evolutionary games taking place on them. While the consensus is that interdependence does promote cooperation by means of organizational complexity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-23 Zhen Wang , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Dynamic environments shape diverse dynamics in evolutionary game systems. We introduce spatial heterogeneity of resources into the prisoner's dilemma game model to explore coevolutionary game dynamics with environmental feedback. The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-17 Yi-Duo Chen , Jian-Yue Guan , Zhi-Xi Wu

Understanding how cooperation emerges in public goods games is crucial for addressing societal challenges. While optional participation can establish cooperation without identifying cooperators, it relies on specific assumptions -- that…

Trust and reciprocation of it form the foundation of economic, social and other interactions. While the Trust Game is widely used to study these concepts for interactions between two players, often alternating different roles (i.e.,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-21 Ik Soo Lim , Naoki Masuda

Cooperation in one-shot anonymous interactions is a widely documented aspect of human behaviour. Here we shed light on the motivations behind this behaviour by experimentally exploring cooperation in a one-shot continuous-strategy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Valerio Capraro , Jillian J. Jordan , David G. Rand

Elucidating the mechanisms that lead to cooperation is still one of the main scientific challenges of current times, as many common cooperative scenarios remain elusive and at odds with Darwin's natural selection theory. Here, we study…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-14 H. Guo , D. Jia , I. Sendiña-Nadal , M. Zhang , Z. Wang , X. Li , K. Alfaro-Bittner , Y. Moreno , S. Boccaletti

Cooperation within asymmetric populations has garnered significant attention in evolutionary games. This paper explores cooperation evolution in populations with weak and strong players, using a game model where players choose between…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-12 Hao Guo , Chen Shen , Rongcheng Zou , Pin Tao , Yuanchun Shi , Zhen Wang , Junliang Xing

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into human group settings raises essential questions about how these novel participants influence cooperative social norms. While previous studies on human-AI cooperation have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Nico Mutzner , Taha Yasseri , Heiko Rauhut

According to the fundamental principle of evolutionary game theory, the more successful strategy in a population should spread. Hence, during a strategy imitation process a player compares its payoff value to the payoff value held by a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-07 A. Szolnoki , M. Perc

One of the most direct human mechanisms of promoting cooperation is rewarding it. We study the effect of sharing a reward among cooperators in the most stringent form of social dilemma, namely the Prisoner's Dilemma. Specifically, for a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-02-02 J. A. Cuesta , R. Jimenez , H. Lugo , A. Sanchez

Commonly, the strategy revision phase in evolutionary games relies on payoff comparison. Namely, agents compare their payoff with the opponent, assessing whether changing strategy can be potentially convenient. Even tiny payoff differences…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-24 Marco Alberto Javarone , Shaurya Pratap Singh