2016年2月
How to keep punishment to maintain cooperation: Introducing social vaccine
PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
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- 443
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- 開始ページ
- 526
- 終了ページ
- 536
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physa.2015.08.053
- 出版者・発行元
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Although there is much support for the punishment system as a sophisticated approach to resolving social dilemmas, more than a few researchers have also pointed out the limitations of such an approach. Second-order free riding is a serious issue facing the punishment system. Various pioneering works have suggested that an anti-social behavior or noise stemming from a mutation may, surprisingly, be helpful for avoiding second-order freeloaders. In this work, we show through mathematical analysis and an agent-based simulation of a model extending the meta-norms game that the coercive introduction of a small number of non-cooperators can maintain a cooperative regime robustly. This paradoxical idea was inspired by the effect of a vaccine, which is a weakened pathogen injected into a human body to create antibodies and ward off infection by that pathogen. Our expectation is that the coercive introduction of a few defectors, i.e., a social vaccine, will help maintain a highly cooperative regime because it will ensure that the punishment system works. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.physa.2015.08.053
- ISSN : 0378-4371
- eISSN : 1873-2119
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000365052700053