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There is a common belief that humans and many animals follow transitive inference (choosing A over C on the basis of knowing that A is better than B and B is better than C). Transitivity seems to be the essence of rational choice. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Marcin Makowski , Edward W. Piotrowski

Intention recognition is an important characteristic of intelligent agents. In their interactions with others, they try to read others' intentions and make an image of others to choose their actions accordingly. While the way in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Yuma Fujimoto , Kunihiko Kaneko

Cooperation and competition between human players in repeated microeconomic games offer a powerful window onto social phenomena such as the establishment, breakdown and repair of trust. This offers the prospect of particular insight into…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-04 Andreas Hula , Iris Vilares , Peter Dayan , P. Read Montague

We study the emergence of cooperation in large spatial public goods games. Without employing severe social-pressure against "defectors", or alternatively, significantly rewarding "cooperators", theoretical models typically predict a system…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Amos Korman , Robin Vacus

We study the emergence of altruistic behaviour in collective games. In particular, we take into account Toral's version of collective Parrondo's paradoxical games, in which the redistribution of capital between agents, who can play…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-30 Dario A. Zappalà , Alessandro Pluchino , Andrea Rapisarda

Deliberate deceptiveness intended to gain an advantage is commonplace in human and animal societies. In a social dilemma, an individual may only pretend to be a cooperator to elicit cooperation from others, while in reality he is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-03 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Wealthy individuals may be less tempted to defect than those with comparatively low payoffs. To take this into consideration, we introduce coevolutionary success-driven multigames in structured populations. While the core game is always the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-17 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Lurking is a complex user-behavioral phenomenon that occurs in all large-scale online communities and social networks. It generally refers to the behavior characterizing users that benefit from the information produced by others in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Marco Alberto Javarone , Roberto Interdonato , Andrea Tagarelli

As Aumann stated, cooperation and non-cooperation are different ways of viewing the same game, with the main difference being whether players can reach a binding cooperative agreement. In the real world, many games often coexist competition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiang Shuwen , Luo Enquan , Yang Yanlong

This paper investigates how natural language communication with an AI agent affects human cooperative behaviour in indefinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma games. We conduct a laboratory experiment (n = 126) with two between-subjects…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-18 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Konstantinos Georgalos

We study the evolution of cooperation in populations where individuals play prisoner's dilemma on a network. Every node of the network corresponds on an individual choosing whether to cooperate or defect in a repeated game. The players…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Vahideh H. Manshadi , Amin Saberi

In many multiagent scenarios, agents distribute resources, such as time or energy, among several tasks. Having completed their tasks and generated profits, task payoffs must be divided among the agents in some reasonable manner. Cooperative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Yair Zick , Georgios Chalkiadakis , Edith Elkind , Evangelos Markakis

Is it rational for selfish individuals to cooperate? The conventional answer based on analysis of games such as the Prisoners Dilemma (PD) is that it is not, even though mutual cooperation results in a better outcome for all. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-14 V. Sasidevan , Sitabhra Sinha

We propose a model of emergence of cooperation in evolutionary games that high- lights the role of network formation and effect of network structure. In line with empirical data, the model proposes a mechanism that explains the persistence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-12-14 David Chavalarias

When players make sequential decisions that are unobservable to one another, their behavior can nonetheless be influenced by knowing who moves first. This sequential structure, often referred to as "virtual observability," suggests that…

General Economics · Economics 2025-12-02 C. Monica Capra , Charles A. Holt , Po-Hsuan Lin

Cooperative behaviour has been extensively studied as a choice between cooperation and defection. However, the possibility to not participate is also frequently available. This type of problem can be studied through the optional public…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-06 Shirsendu Podder , Simone Righi , Francesca Pancotto

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

In this paper, we study a game called ``Mafia,'' in which different players have different types of information, communication and functionality. The players communicate and function in a way that resembles some real-life situations. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Mark Braverman , Omid Etesami , Elchanan Mossel

A recently introduced concept of "cooperative equilibrium", based on the assumption that players have a natural attitude to cooperation, has been proven a powerful tool in predicting human behaviour in social dilemmas. In this paper, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Valerio Capraro , Maria Polukarov , Matteo Venanzi , Nicholas R. Jennings

This work explores dynamics existing in interactions between players. The dynamic system of games is a new attitude to modeling in which an event is modeled using several games. The model allows us to analyze the interplay capabilities and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-09 Gholamreza Askari , Madjid Eshaghi Gordji , Ali Zarei