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physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Suppressing defection by increasing temptation: the impact of smart cooperators on a social dilemma situation

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

In a social dilemma situation, where individual and collective interests are in conflict, it sounds a reasonable assumption that the presence of super or smart players, who simulta…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 40 cited

Supporting punishment via taxation in a structured population

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Taxes are an essential and uniformly applied institution for maintaining modern societies. However, the levels of taxation remain an intensive debate topic among citizens. If each…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 9 cited

Restoring spatial cooperation with myopic agents in a three-strategy social dilemma

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Introducing strategy complexity into the basic conflict of cooperation and defection is a natural response to avoid the tragedy of the common state. As an intermediate approach, qu…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 20 cited

Group-size dependent synergy in heterogeneous populations

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

When people collaborate, they expect more in return than a simple sum of their efforts. This observation is at the heart of the so-called public goods game, where the participants'…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 28 cited

When costly migration helps to improve cooperation

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

Motion is a typical reaction among animals and humans trying to reach better conditions in a changing world. This aspect has been studied intensively in social dilemmas where compe…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 17 cited

Small Fraction of Selective Cooperators Can Elevate General Wellbeing Significantly

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Colin Cleveland, Attila Szolnoki

A cooperative player invests effort into a common venture without knowing the partner's intention in advance. But this strategy can be implemented in various ways when a player is…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 30 cited

Social Clustering in Epidemic Spread on Coevolving Networks

Hsuan-Wei Lee, Nishant Malik, Feng Shi +1

Even though transitivity is a central structural feature of social networks, its influence on epidemic spread on coevolving networks has remained relatively unexplored. Here we int…