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Social exclusion has been regarded as one of the most effective measures to promote the evolution of cooperation. In real society, the way in which social exclusion works can be direct or indirect. However, thus far there is no related work…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-30 Linjie Liu , Xiaojie Chen

Societies consisting of cooperative individuals seem to require for their continuing success that defectors be policed. The precise connection between punishers and benefits, population structure, and division of labour, however, remains…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-11 Gereon A. Kaiping , Timothy J. Sluckin , Simon J. Cox

According to the standard protocol of spatial public goods game, a cooperator player invests not only into his own game but also into the games organized by neighboring partners. In this work, we relax this assumption by allowing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-23 Attila Szolnoki , Xiaojie Chen

Objective: The study investigates the effect on cooperation in multiplayer games, when the population from which all individuals are drawn is structured - i.e. when a given individual is only competing with a small subset of the entire…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Kaare B. Mikkelsen , Lars A. Bach

Public goods game serves as a valuable paradigm for studying the challenges of collective cooperation in human and natural societies. Peer punishment is often considered as an effective incentive for promoting cooperation in such contexts.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-25 Qiushuang Wang , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

The dilemma in cooperation is one of the major concerns in game theory. In a public-goods game, each individual pays a cost for cooperation, or to prevent defection, and receives a reward from the collected cost in a group. Thus, defection…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-21 Yuma Fujimoto , Takahiro Sagawa , Kunihiko Kaneko

We model a dynamic public good contribution game, where players are (naturally) formed into groups. The groups are exogenously placed in a sequence, with limited information available to players about their groups' position in the sequence.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-10-18 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Jorge Bruno , Sonali SenGupta

In this Brief Report we study the evolutionary dynamics of the Public Goods Game in a population of mobile agents embedded in a 2-dimensional space. In this framework, the backbone of interactions between agents changes in time, allowing us…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-11 A. Cardillo , S. Meloni , J. Gómez-Gardeñes , Y. Moreno

Due to limited cognitive skills for perceptual error or other emotional reasons, players may keep their current strategies even if there is a more promising choice. Such behavior inertia has already been studied, but its consequences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-15 Chaoqian Wang , Attila Szolnoki

Punishment as a mechanism for promoting cooperation has been studied extensively for more than two decades, but its effectiveness remains a matter of dispute. Here, we examine how punishment's impact varies across cooperative settings…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-26 Mohammed Alsobay , David G. Rand , Duncan J. Watts , Abdullah Almaatouq

Purpose: We propose a model to present a possible mechanism for obtaining sizeable behavioural structures by simulating an agent based on the evolutionary public good game with available social learning. Methods: The model considered a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chulwook Park

The evolution of cooperation among unrelated individuals in human and animal societies remains a challenging issue across disciplines. It is an important subject also in the evolutionary game theory to research how cooperation arises. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Norihito Toyota

When people collaborate, they expect more in return than a simple sum of their efforts. This observation is at the heart of the so-called public goods game, where the participants' contributions are multiplied by an $r$ synergy factor…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-29 Hsuan-Wei Lee , Colin Cleveland , Attila Szolnoki

The emergence and maintenance of cooperative behavior is a fascinating topic in evolutionary biology and social science. The public goods game (PGG) is a paradigm for exploring cooperative behavior. In PGG, the total resulting payoff is…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-15 Yan Li , Xinsheng Liu , Jens Christian Claussen , Wanlin Guo

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that social and cooperative behavior can be affected by cognitive and neurological factors, suggesting the existence of state-based decision-making mechanisms that may have emerged by…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-23 Zoran Utkovski , Viktor Stojkoski , Lasko Basnarkov , Ljupco Kocarev

The emergence of cooperation figures among the main goal of game theory in competitive-cooperative environments. Potential games have long been hinted as viable alternatives to study realistic player behavior. Here, we expand the potential…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 G. M. Nakamura , G. S. Contesini , A. S. Martinez

The evolution of cooperation among unrelated individuals in human and animal societies remains a challenging issue across disciplines. It is an important subject also in the evolutionary game theory to understand how cooperation arises. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-01 Norihito Toyota

Understanding and resolving cooperation dilemmas are key challenges in evolutionary game theory, which have revealed several mechanisms to address them. This paper investigates the comprehensive influence of multiple reputation-related…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-10 Kai Xie , Attila Szolnoki

The tragedy of the commons illustrates a fundamental social dilemma where individual rational actions lead to collectively undesired outcomes, threatening the sustainability of shared resources. Strategies to escape this dilemma, however,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami

The evolution of cooperation has remained an important problem in evolutionary theory and social sciences. In this regard, a curious question is why consistent cooperative and defective personalities exist and if they serve a role in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-14 Mohammad Salahshour