Computational behavioral models in public goods gameswith migration between groups

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Title
Computational behavioral models in public goods gameswith migration between groups
Journal
Journal of Physics: Complexity
Author(s)
Tomassini Marco, Antonioni Alberto
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Published
Issued date
24/11/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
2
Pages
045013
Language
english
Abstract
Public good games are a metaphor
for modeling cooperative behavior in groups in the presence of incentives to free ride. In the model
presented here agents play a public good game with their neighbors in a social network structure. Agents'
decision rules in our model are inspired by elementary learning observed in laboratory and online behavioral experiments
involving human participants with the same amount
of information, i.e., when individuals only know their own current contribution and their own cumulated payoff. In addition,
agents in the model are allowed to severe links with groups in which their payoff is lower and create links
to a new randomly chosen group. Reinforcing the results obtained in network scenarios where agents play
Prisoner's Dilemma games, we show that thanks to this relinking possibility, the whole system reaches higher levels
of average contribution with respect to the case in which the network cannot change. Our setup opens new frameworks
to be investigated, and potentially confirmed, through controlled human experiments.
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