3 papers
cs.MA2025
Uncertainty, bias and the institution bootstrapping problem
Stavros Anagnou, Christoph Salge, Peter R. Lewis
Institutions play a critical role in enabling communities to manage common-pool resources and avert tragedies of the commons. However, a fundamental issue arises: Individuals typic…
cs.MA2024
Normative Feeling: Socially Patterned Affective Mechanisms
Stavros Anagnou, Daniel Polani, Christoph Salge
Breaking a norm elicits both material and emotional consequences, yet how this coupling arose evolutionarily remains unclear. We investigate this question in light of emerging work…
cs.MA2023
The Effect of Noise on the Emergence of Continuous Norms and its Evolutionary Dynamics
Stavros Anagnou, Daniel Polani, Christoph Salge
We examine the effect of noise on societies of agents using an agent-based model of evolutionary norm emergence. Generally, we see that noisy societies are more selfish, smaller an…