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Correlation of Positive and Negative Reciprocity Fails to Confer an Evolutionary Advantage: Phase Transitions to Elementary Strategies
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Why do humans cooperate with other unrelated humans? Correlated use of both a ``reward'' and a ``punishment'' strategy has been thought to be an evolutionary force underlying our predisposition for cooperation: if others are kind to us, we are kind to them; if they are exploitive, we may stop cooperating or tend to punish them. Recent human experiments show, however, that individuals mostly use one strategy or the other, rarely both. Now, statistical physical simulations of an evolutionary game model lend significant support to these findings.
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- Szolnoki, A., & Perc, M.
- Venue
- Physical Review X
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2013-11-27
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 2160-3308 (ISSN-L)
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- W2079415599
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- 202
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 75.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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