The Cooperator's Dilemma
Author: Mark Irving Lichbach
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780472105724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and current presentation of the collective-action approach
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The cooperator dilemma
Author: Mark Irving Lichbach
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Published: 1996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompensating the Cooperators
Author: Iris Bohnet
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Evolution of Cooperation
Author: Robert Axelrod
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-04-29
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0786734884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.
Divided Loyalists Or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus About Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas
Author: Matthew W. McCarter
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe current social dilemma literature lacks theoretical consensus regarding how individuals behave when facing multiple simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. We employ a laboratory experiment to create consensus between these literatures and find support for the conditional-cooperation hypothesis. The positive effect of interacting with different group members comes from participants having an opportunity to shift their cooperative behavior from the less cooperative to the more cooperative group.
SuperCooperators
Author: Martin Nowak
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1451626630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the importance of cooperation in human beings and in nature, arguing that this social tool is as important an aspect of evolution as mutation and natural selection.
Game-Theoretical Models in Biology
Author: Mark Broom
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2013-03-27
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 1439853215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological situations. It discusses the static aspects of game theory in a mathematically rigorous way that is appealing to mathematicians. In addition, the authors explore many applications of game theory to biology, making the text useful to biologists as well. The book describes a wide range of topics in evolutionary games, including matrix games, replicator dynamics, the hawk-dove game, and the prisoner’s dilemma. It covers the evolutionarily stable strategy, a key concept in biological games, and offers in-depth details of the mathematical models. Most chapters illustrate how to use MATLAB® to solve various games. Important biological phenomena, such as the sex ratio of so many species being close to a half, the evolution of cooperative behavior, and the existence of adornments (for example, the peacock’s tail), have been explained using ideas underpinned by game theoretical modeling. Suitable for readers studying and working at the interface of mathematics and the life sciences, this book shows how evolutionary game theory is used in the modeling of these diverse biological phenomena.
Simple Heuristics in a Social World
Author: ABC Research Group
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0195388437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others.
Resilient Cooperators Stabilize Long-Run Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Author: Andrew Mao
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearning in finitely repeated games of cooperation remains poorly understood in part because their dynamics play out over a timescale exceeding that of traditional lab experiments. Here, we report results of a virtual lab experiment in which 94 subjects play up to 400 ten-round games of Prisoner's Dilemma over the course of twenty consecutive weekdays. Consistent with previous work, the typical round of first defection moves earlier for several days; however, this unraveling process stabilizes after roughly one week. Analysing individual strategies, we find that approximately 40% of players behave as resilient cooperators who avoid unraveling even at significant cost to themselves. Finally, using a standard learning model we predict that a sufficiently large minority of resilient cooperators can permanently stabilize unraveling among a majority of rational players. These results shed hopeful light on the long-term dynamics of cooperation, and demonstrate the importance of long-run experiments.
Social Dilemmas
Author: Samuel S Komorita
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0429965842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmphasizing real-world examples, Komorita and Parks illustrate both the theoretical and the ecological relevance of social dilemmas, focusing on "exchange theory" to explain how conflicts are resolved. This book is appropriate for students of psychology, political science, and sociology.
