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Indirect reciprocity explains the evolution of cooperation by considering how our cooperative behavior toward someone is reciprocated by someone else who has observed us. A cohesive society has a shared norm that prescribes how to assess…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-03 Quang Anh Le , Seung Ki Baek

To achieve common goals, we often use joint commitments. Our commitment helps us to coordinate with our partners and assures them that their cooperative efforts will benefit themselves. However, if one of us can exploit the other's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Marcus Krellner , The Anh Han

Reputations provide a powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation, as individuals cooperate with those of good social standing. But how should moral reputations be updated as we observe social behavior, and when will a population converge on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-26 Taylor A. Kessinger , Corina E. Tarnita , Joshua B. Plotkin

The basic problem in the cooperation theory is to justify the cooperation. Here we propose a new approach, where players are driven by their altruism to cooperate or not. The probability of cooperation depends also on the co-player's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Krzysztof Kulakowski , Przemyslaw Gawronski

In our recent model, the cooperation emerges as a positive feedback between a not-too-bad reputation and an altruistic attitude. Here we introduce a bias of altruism as to favorize members of the same group. The matrix F(i,j) of frequency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-24 P. Gawronski , M. J. Krawczyk , K. Kulakowski

Keeping a high reputation, by contributing to common efforts, plays a key role in explaining the evolution of collective cooperation among unrelated agents in a complex society. Nevertheless, it is not necessarily an individual feature, but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Siyu He , Qin Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

Direct reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation in repeated social interactions. According to this literature, individuals naturally learn to adopt conditionally cooperative strategies if they have multiple encounters…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-07 Nikoleta E. Glynatsi , Alex McAvoy , Christian Hilbe

When a population is engaged in successive prisoner's dilemmas, indirect reciprocity through reputation fosters cooperation through the emergence of moral and action rules. A simplified model has recently been proposed where individuals…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-18 Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero , José A. Cuesta

People tend to have their social interactions with members of their own community. Such group-structured interactions can have a profound impact on the behaviors that evolve. Group structure affects the way people cooperate, and how they…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-09 Yohsuke Murase , Christian Hilbe , Seung Ki Baek

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

Understanding the emergence of cooperation in systems of computational agents is crucial for the development of effective cooperative AI. Interaction among individuals in real-world settings are often sparse and occur within a broad…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Nicole Orzan , Erman Acar , Davide Grossi , Roxana Rădulescu

Many online marketplaces enjoy great success. Buyers and sellers in successful markets carry out cooperative transactions even if they do not know each other in advance and a moral hazard exists. An indispensable component that enables…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Naoki Masuda , Mitsuhiro Nakamura

Many biological and social systems show significant levels of collective action. Several cooperation mechanisms have been proposed, yet they have been mostly studied independently. Among these, direct reciprocity supports cooperation on the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-15 Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero , Francisco C. Santos , Vito Trianni

People often engage in costly cooperation, especially in repeated interactions. When deciding whether to cooperate, individuals typically take into account how others have acted in the past. For instance, when one person is deciding whether…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-07 Saptarshi Pal , Christian Hilbe , Nikoleta E Glynatsi

Cooperation underlies many natural and artificial systems. While voluntary participation can sustain cooperation without informational assumptions, real interactions are rarely anonymous, leaving the joint effects of participation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-27 Chen Shen , Zhao Song , Xinyu Wang , Lei Shi , Matjaž Perc , Zhen Wang , Jun Tanimoto

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

Collective action demands that individuals efficiently coordinate how much, where, and when to cooperate. Laboratory experiments have extensively explored the first part of this process, demonstrating that a variety of social-cognitive…

How cooperation emerges in human societies is both an evolutionary enigma, and a practical problem with tangible implications for societal health. Population structure has long been recognized as a catalyst for cooperation because local…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-06 Qi Su , Joshua. B Plotkin

Communication is fundamental to sustaining reciprocity and cooperation in strategic interactions. We identify and formulate the influence attribution problem as the central optimization difficulty inherent in such dynamics for a learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yue Lin , Pascal Poupart , Shuhui Zhu , Dan Qiao , Wenhao Li , Yuan Liu , Hongyuan Zha , Baoxiang Wang

Recent studies suggest that the emergence of cooperative behavior can be explained by generalized reciprocity, a behavioral mechanism based on the principle of "help anyone if helped by someone". In complex systems, the cooperative dynamics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-02 Viktor Stojkoski