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Cooperative Behavior in Pre-State Societies: An Agent-Based Approach of the Aksum Civilization

Riccardo Vasellini, Gilda Ferrandino, Luisa Sernicola +2

This study intends to test the hypothesis that, contrary to traditional interpretation, the social structure of the polity of Aksum - especially in its early stages - was not chara…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 9 cited

Evolutionary dynamics of organised crime and terrorist networks

Luis A. Martinez-Vaquero, Valerio Dolci, Vito Trianni

Crime is pervasive into modern societies, although with different levels of diffusion across regions. Its dynamics are dependent on various socio-economic factors that make the ove…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 43 cited

Lying on networks: The role of structure and topology in promoting honesty

Valerio Capraro, Matjaz Perc, Daniele Vilone

Lies can have a negating impact on governments, companies, and the society as a whole. Understanding the dynamics of lying is therefore of crucial importance across different field…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 49 cited

The evolution of lying in well-mixed populations

Valerio Capraro, Matjaz Perc, Daniele Vilone

Lies can have profoundly negative consequences for individuals, groups, and even for societies. Understanding how lying evolves and when it proliferates is therefore of significant…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 9 cited

Humans make best use of social heuristics when confronting hard problems in large groups

Federica Stefanelli, Enrico Imbimbo, Daniele Vilone +3

We report the results of a game-theoretic experiment with human players who solve the problems of increasing complexity by cooperating in groups of increasing size. Our experimenta…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 2 cited

Social Pressure and Environmental Effects on Networks: A Path to Cooperation

María Pereda, Daniele Vilone

In this paper, we study how the pro-social impact due to the vigilance by other individuals is conditioned by both environmental and evolutionary effects. To this aim, we consider…