Title
How Evolutionary Dynamics Affects Network Reciprocity in Prisoner's Dilemma.
Abstract
Cooperation lies at the foundations of human societies, yet why people cooperate remains a conundrum. The issue, known as network reciprocity, of whether population structure can foster cooperative behavior in social dilemmas has been addressed by many, but theoretical studies have yielded contradictory results so far-as the problem is very sensitive to how players adapt their strategy. However, recent experiments with the prisoner's dilemma game played on different networks and in a specific range of payoffs suggest that humans, at least for those experimental setups, do not consider neighbors' payoffs when making their decisions, and that the network structure does not influence the final outcome. In this work we carry out an extensive analysis of different evolutionary dynamics, taking into account most of the alternatives that have been proposed so far to implement players' strategy updating process. In this manner we show that the absence of network reciprocity is a general feature of the dynamics (among those we consider) that do not take neighbors' payoffs into account. Our results, together with experimental evidence, hint at how to properly model real people's behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.18564/jasss.2726
JASSS-THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Evolutionary Game Theory,Prisoner's Dilemma,Network Reciprocity
Social psychology,Computer science,Strong reciprocity,Prisoner's dilemma,Reciprocity (social psychology),Evolutionary game theory,Dilemma,Evolutionary dynamics,Superrationality,Social dilemma
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2
1460-7425
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giulio Cimini1535.58
Angel Sánchez200.34