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most citedEvolutionary mixed games in structured populations: Cooperation and the benefits of heterogeneity

105 citations · 333 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

q-bio.PE2026

Fixation probabilities for multi-allele Moran dynamics with weak selection

Ian Braga, Lucas Wardil, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Fixation probabilities are essential for characterizing stochastic evolutionary dynamics, but analytical results remain limited mainly to systems with two competing types. We devel…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

The evolution of pluralistic ignorance

Alessandra F. Lütz, Lucas Wardil

Pluralistic ignorance is a social-psychological phenomenon that occurs when individuals privately hold beliefs that differ from perceived group norms. Traditional models, based on…

physics.soc-ph2022

Invasion of optimal social contracts

Alessandra F. Lütz, Marco Antonio Amaral, Ian Braga +1

The Stag-hunt game is a prototype for social contracts. Adopting a new and better social contract is usually challenging because the current one is already widely adopted and stabl…

physics.soc-ph2022

On the synchronization of coupled random walks and applications to social systems

Ricardo Simão, Lucas Wardil

Some political strategies to win elections over the last years were based heavily on fomenting general distrust in information institutions and favoring distrustful sources. The mi…

physics.soc-ph2021

Acculturation and the evolution of cooperation in spatial public goods games

Alessandra F. Lütz, Marco Antonio Amaral, Lucas Wardil

Cooperation is one of the foundations of human society. Many solutions to cooperation problems have been developed and culturally transmitted across generations. Because immigratio…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 17 cited

Moderate immigration may promote a peak of cooperation among natives

Alessandra Friedrich Lütz, Marco Antonio Amaral, Lucas Wardil

In a world of hardening borders, nations may deprive themselves of enjoying the benefits of cooperative immigrants. Here, we analyze the effect of efficient cooperative immigrants…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 9 cited

Social dilemma in traffic with heterogeneous drivers

Ricardo Simão, Lucas Wardil

There is a tragedy of the traffic analogous to the tragedy of the commons that can be caused by overtaking. We analyze the effect of overtaking in a minimal model of vehicular traf…

q-bio.PE2019★ 4 cited

Moderate death rates can be beneficial for the evolution of cooperation

Elton Júnior. S, Marco A. Amaral, Lucas Wardil

Spatial structure is one of the simplest and most studied ecological factors that affect the evolution of cooperation. It has been shown that spatial reciprocity promotes cooperati…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 11 cited

Cooperation in public goods games: stay, but not for too long

Lucas Wardil, Marco A. Amaral

Cooperation in repeated public goods game is hardly achieved, unless contingent behavior is present. Surely, if mechanisms promoting positive assortment between cooperators are pre…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 46 cited

Role-separating ordering in social dilemmas controlled by topological frustration

Marco A. Amaral, Matjaz Perc, Lucas Wardil +3

"Three is a crowd" is an old proverb that applies as much to social interactions, as it does to frustrated configurations in statistical physics models. Accordingly, social relatio…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 99 cited

Stochastic win-stay-lose-shift strategy with dynamic aspirations in evolutionary social dilemmas

Marco A. Amaral, Lucas Wardil, Matjaz Perc +1

In times of plenty expectations rise, just as in times of crisis they fall. This can be mathematically described as a Win-Stay-Lose-Shift strategy with dynamic aspiration levels, w…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 105 cited

Evolutionary mixed games in structured populations: Cooperation and the benefits of heterogeneity

Marco A. Amaral, Lucas Wardil, Matjaz Perc +1

Evolutionary games on networks traditionally involve the same game at each interaction. Here we depart from this assumption by considering mixed games, where the game played at eac…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 16 cited

Cooperation in two-dimensional mixed-games

Marco A. Amaral, Jafferson K. L. da Silva, Lucas Wardil

Evolutionary game theory is a common framework to study the evolution of cooperation, where it is usually assumed that the same game is played in all interactions. Here, we investi…

physics.soc-ph2014

Reactive Strategies: The Establishment of Cooperation

Elton J. S. Júnior, Lucas Wardil, Jafferson K. L. da Silva

Cooperation is usually represented as a Prisoner's Dilemma game. Although individual self-interest may not favour cooperation, cooperation can evolve if, for example, players inter…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 24 cited

Distinguishing the opponents in the prisoner dilemma in well-mixed populations

Lucas Wardil, Jafferson K. L. da Silva

Here we study the effects of adopting different strategies against different opponent instead of adopting the same strategy against all of them in the prisoner dilemma structured i…

q-bio.MN2008

A discrete inhomogeneous model for the yeast cell cycle

L. Wardil, J. K. L. da Silva

We study the robustness and stability of the yeast cell regulatory network by using a general inhomogeneous discrete model. We find that inhomogeneity, on average, enhances the sta…