Improving environment drives dynamical change in social game structure

Erika Chiba; Diane Carmeliza N. Cuaresma; Jomar F. Rabajante; Jerrold M. Tubay; Maica Krizna Areja Gavina; Tatsuki Yamamoto; Jin Yoshimura; Satoru Morita; Hiromu Ito; Takuya Okabe

doi:10.1098/rsos.201166

Improving environment drives dynamical change in social game structure

Erika Chiba, Diane Carmeliza N. Cuaresma, Jomar F. Rabajante, Jerrold M. Tubay, Maica Krizna Areja Gavina, Tatsuki Yamamoto, Jin Yoshimura^*, Satoru Morita, Hiromu Ito, Takuya Okabe^*

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Abstract

The development of cooperation in human societies is a major unsolved problem in biological and social sciences. Extensive studies in game theory have shown that cooperative behaviour can evolve only under very limited conditions or with additional complexities, such as spatial structure. Non-trivial two-person games are categorized into three types of games, namely, the prisoner's dilemma game, the chicken game and the stag hunt game. Recently, the weight-lifting game has been shown to cover all five games depending on the success probability of weight lifting, which include the above three games and two trivial cases (all cooperation and all defection; conventionally not distinguished as separate classes). Here, we introduce the concept of the environmental value of a society. Cultural development and deterioration are represented by changes in this probability. We discuss cultural evolution in human societies and the biological communities of living systems.

Original language	English
Article number	201166
Journal	Royal Society Open Science
Volume	8
Issue number	5
Early online date	5 May 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201166
Publication status	Published - May 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

changing social structure
hawk-dove game
prisoner's dilemma game
stag hunt game
weight-lifting game

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