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most citedThe cost of noise: stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments

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physics.soc-ph2026

What a collective can hold in common: a gauge framework for private representations

Mohammad Salahshour

Many models of collective behavior write headings, beliefs, and meanings in one experimenter-defined frame. Organisms do not live there: each represents the world in a private spac…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

The Co-evolution of Cooperation and Epidemic Spreading

Mehran Noori, Nahid Azimi-Tafreshi, Mohammad Salahshour

People's cooperation in adopting protective measures is effective in epidemic control and creates herd immunity as a public good. Similarly, the presence of an epidemic is a drivin…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 9 cited

The cost of noise: stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments

Mohammad Salahshour, Vincent Oberhauser, Matteo Smerlak

Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer pun…

physics.soc-ph2021

Evolution of cooperation in costly institutes

Mohammad Salahshour

We show that in a situation where individuals have a choice between a costly institute and a free institute to perform a collective action task, the existence of a participation co…

physics.soc-ph2020

The evolution of punishing institutions

Mohammad Salahshour

A large body of empirical evidence suggests that humans are willing to engage in costly punishment of defectors in public goods games. Based on such pieces of evidence, it is sugge…