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Using simulations between pairs of $\epsilon$-greedy q-learners with one-period memory, this article demonstrates that the potential function of the stochastic replicator dynamics (Foster and Young, 1990) allows it to predict the emergence…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-02-23 Maximilian Schaefer

The Prisoner's Dilemma game has a long history stretching across the social, biological, and physical sciences. In 2012, Press and Dyson developed a method for analyzing the mapping of the 8-dimensional strategy profile onto the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-28 Robert D. Young

In this paper, we investigate the prison's dilemma game with monte carlo rule in the view of the idea of the classic Monte Carlo method on the grid. Monte carlo rule is an organic combination of the current dynamic rules of individual…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Jiadong Wu , Chengye Zhao

The behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) as artificial social agents is largely unexplored, and we still lack extensive evidence of how these agents react to simple social stimuli. Testing the behavior of AI agents in classic Game…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Nicoló Fontana , Francesco Pierri , Luca Maria Aiello

Partner selection is an important process in many social interactions, permitting individuals to decrease the risks associated with cooperation. In large populations, defectors may escape punishment by roving from partner to partner, but…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Dan Ashlock , Mark D. Smucker , E. Ann Stanley , Leigh Tesfatsion

In human societies the probability of strategy adoption from a given person may be affected by the personal features. Now we investigate how an artificially imposed restricted ability to reproduce, overruling ones fitness, affects an…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-10 A. Szolnoki , M. Perc , G. Szabo

Oscillatory behaviors are ubiquitous in nature and the human society. However, most previous works fail to reproduce them in the two-strategy game-theoretical models. Here we show that oscillatory behaviors naturally emerge if incomplete…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-27 Jing Zhang , Zhao Li , Jiqiang Zhang , Lin Ma , Guozhong Zheng , Li Chen

The Prisoner's Dilemma is used as a model in processes involving reciprocity; however, its classical setup can be insufficient in settings where the symmetry of the simultaneous decision making is broken -- for example, in donor and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Nataliya A. Balabanova , Hong Duong , Christian Hilbe

We study population dynamics under which each revising agent tests each strategy k times, with each trial being against a newly drawn opponent, and chooses the strategy whose mean payoff was highest. When k = 1, defection is globally stable…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-01-05 Srinivas Arigapudi , Yuval Heller , Igal Milchtaich

The Prisoner's dilemma is the main game theoretical framework in which the onset and maintainance of cooperation in biological populations is studied. In the spatial version of the model, we study the robustness of cooperation in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Mendeli H. Vainstein , Jeferson J. Arenzon

Game theory formalizes certain interactions between physical particles or between living beings in biology, sociology, and economics, and quantifies the outcomes by payoffs. The prisoner's dilemma (PD) describes situations in which it is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dirk Helbing , Sergi Lozano

Facial expressions are central to human interaction, yet their role in strategic decision-making has received limited attention. We investigate how real-time facial communication influences cooperation in repeated social dilemmas. In a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mayada Oudah , John Wooders

We explore the minimal conditions for sustainable cooperation on a spatially distributed population of memoryless, unconditional strategies (cooperators and defectors) in presence of unbiased, non contingent mobility in the context of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Mendeli H. Vainstein , Ana Tereza Costa Silva , Jeferson J. Arenzon

The observed cooperation on the level of genes, cells, tissues, and individuals has been the object of intense study by evolutionary biologists, mainly because cooperation often flourishes in biological systems in apparent contradiction to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-21 Dimitris Iliopoulos , Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami

Matrix games like Prisoner's Dilemma have guided research on social dilemmas for decades. However, they necessarily treat the choice to cooperate or defect as an atomic action. In real-world social dilemmas these choices are temporally…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Joel Z. Leibo , Vinicius Zambaldi , Marc Lanctot , Janusz Marecki , Thore Graepel

In the last few decades, numerous experiments have shown that humans do not always behave so as to maximize their material payoff. Cooperative behavior when non-cooperation is a dominant strategy (with respect to the material payoffs) is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Valerio Capraro , Joseph Y. Halpern

We study a modified prisoner's dilemma game taking place on two-dimensional disordered square lattices. The players are pure strategists and can either cooperate or defect with their immediate neighbors. In the generations each player…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi-Xi Wu , Xin-Jian Xu , Zi-Gang Huang , Sheng-Jun Wang , Ying-Hai Wang

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

We present a game-theoretic model for the spread of deviant behavior in online social networks. We utilize a two-strategy framework wherein each player's behavior is classified as normal or deviant and evolves according to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Sarah Rajtmajer , Christopher Griffin , Derek Mikesell , Anna Squicciarini

This paper characterizes how different incentive instruments shape cooperation in a repeated Prisoner`s Dilemma with a continuum of players. A simple tit-for-tat strategy competes against unconditional defection, and the long-run outcome is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-14 Alexander Kangas