Heterogeneous resource allocation can change social hierarchy in public goods games [PDF]
Public goods games (PGGs) represent one of the most useful tools to study group interactions. However, even if they could provide an explanation for the emergence and stability of cooperation in modern societies, they are not able to reproduce some key ...
Sandro Meloni +2 more
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Framing in multiple public goods games and donation to charities [PDF]
The vast amount of research devoted to public goods games has shown that contributions may be dramatically affected by varying framing conditions. This is particularly relevant in the context of donations to charities and non-governmental organizations ...
F. Maciel Cardoso +6 more
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Evolution of cooperation and consistent personalities in public goods games [PDF]
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 evolution of ...
Mohammad Salahshour
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Directed migration shapes cooperation in spatial ecological public goods games. [PDF]
From the microscopic to the macroscopic level, biological life exhibits directed migration in response to environmental conditions. Chemotaxis enables microbes to sense and move towards nutrient-rich regions or to avoid toxic ones. Socio-economic factors
Felix Funk, Christoph Hauert
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Data games. Sharing public goods with exclusion. [PDF]
A group of agents considers collaborating on a project which requires putting together elements owned by some of them. These elements are pure public goods with exclusion i.e. nonrival but excludable goods like for instance knowledge, data or information,
DEHEZ, Pierre, TELLONE, Daniela
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How to Analyze Models of Nonlinear Public Goods [PDF]
Public goods games often assume that the effect of the public good is a linear function of the number of contributions. In many cases, however, especially in biology, public goods have nonlinear effects, and nonlinear games are known to have dynamics and
Marco Archetti
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Asymmetric effects of social and economic incentives on cooperation in real effort based public goods games. [PDF]
Many practitioners as well as researchers explore promoting environmentally conscious behavior in the context of public goods systems. Numerous experimental studies revealed various types of incentives to increase cooperation on public goods.
Jakob Hackel +4 more
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Discipline and punishment in panoptical public goods games [PDF]
In Public Goods Games (PGG), the temptation to free-ride on others’ contributions poses a significant threat to the sustainability of cooperative societies.
Rocio Botta +2 more
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Variance, norms and cooperative behavior in public goods games [PDF]
This study examines the relationship between the variance of others’ contributions, social norms (empirical and normative expectations), and cooperative behavior using a classic linear public goods game. The following results are observed.
Guangrong Wang +7 more
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Bonus-based mercenary punishment promotes cooperation in public goods games [PDF]
Various regions often adopt punish strategies to solve traffic congestion problems. Punishing defectors is an effective strategy to solve the first-order free-rider problem in a public goods game. But this behavior is costly because the punisher is often
Hongwei Kang +4 more
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