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Social Norm Diffusion in Societies: Simple or Complex?
Claudia Lorenzetti, Aron Szekely, Daniele Vilone +1
Social norms are a fundamental component of society, shaping how we communicate, cooperate, and avoid conflict. Despite their ubiquitous presence and profound influence on behaviou…
Cooperation, Defection, and the Commons: Reproducing an Agent-Based Model of Aksum with Three Logistic Equations
Riccardo Vasellini, Federico Cecconi, Daniele Vilone
Cooperative behavior can improve environmental quality, whereas selfish defection can degrade shared resources. In a recent agent-based study of the Aksum civilization (Vasellini e…
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…
Modelling opinion misperception and the emergence of silence in online social system
Daniele Vilone, Eugenia Polizzi
In the last decades an increasing deal of research has investigated the phenomenon of opinion misperception in human communities and, more recently, in social media. Opinion misper…
The effect of heterogeneous distributions of social norms on the spread of infectious diseases
Daniele Vilone, Giulia Andrighetto
The emergence due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, suddenly erupted at the beginning of 2020 in China and soon spread worldwide. This has ca…
Noise and fluctuations can undermine the efficiency of Majority Rule in Group Evaluation problems
Daniele Vilone
Crowdsourcing is a mechanism by means of which groups of people are able to execute a task by sharing ideas, efforts and resources. Thanks to the online technologies, crowdsourcing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hierarchical invasion of cooperation in complex networks
Daniele Vilone, Valerio Capraro, José J. Ramasco
The emergence and survival of cooperation is one of the hardest problems still open in science. Several factors such as the existence of punishment, fluctuations in finite systems,…
Partner selection supported by opaque reputation promotes cooperative behavior
Valerio Capraro, Francesca Giardini, Daniele Vilone +1
Reputation plays a major role in human societies, and it has been proposed as an explanation for the evolution of cooperation. While the majority of previous studies equates reputa…
Reducing individuals' risk sensitiveness can promote positive and non-alarmist views about catastrophic events in an agent-based simulation
Daniele Vilone, Francesca Giardini, Mario Paolucci +1
We present a cognitive model of opinion dynamics which studies the behavior of a population of interacting individuals in the context of risk of natural disaster. In particular, we…
Evolution of gossip-based indirect reciprocity on a bipartite network
Francesca Giardini, Daniele Vilone
Cooperation can be supported by indirect reciprocity via reputation.Thanks to gossip, reputations are built and circulated and humans can identify defectors and ostracise them. How…
Modeling crowdsourcing as collective problem solving
Andrea Guazzini, Daniele Vilone, Camillo Donati +2
Crowdsourcing is a process of accumulating the ideas, thoughts or information from many independent participants, with aim to find the best solution for a given challenge. Modern i…
Consensus Emerging from the Bottom-up: the Role of Cognitive Variables in Opinion Dynamics
Francesca Giardini, Daniele Vilone, Rosaria Conte
The study of opinions e.g., their formation and change, and their effects on our society by means of theoretical and numerical models has been one of the main goals of soci…
Complex Network Approach to Number Theory
Daniele Vilone
In this short paper, following the most recent advances in complex network theory, a new approach to number theory with potential applications to other fields is proposed. The mode…
Partner selection supports reputation-based cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Daniele Vilone, Francesca Giardini, Mario Paolucci
In dyadic models of indirect reciprocity, the receivers' history of giving has a significant impact on the donor's decision. When the interaction involves more than two agents thin…
Social imitation vs strategic choice, or consensus vs cooperation in the networked Prisoner's Dilemma
Daniele Vilone, Jose J. Ramasco, Angel Sánchez +1
The interplay of social and strategic motivations in human interactions is a largely unexplored question in collective social phenomena. Whether individuals' decisions are taken in…
Cognitive network structure: an experimental study
Andrea Guazzini, Daniele Vilone, Franco Bagnoli +2
In this paper we present first experimental results about a small group of people exchanging private and public messages in a virtual community. Our goal is the study of the cognit…
Social and strategic imitation: the way to consensus
Daniele Vilone, José J. Ramasco, Angel Sánchez +1
Humans do not always make rational choices, a fact that experimental economics is putting on solid grounds. The social context plays an important role in determining our actions, a…
Disentangling Social and Group heterogeneities: Public Goods games on Complex Networks
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Daniele Vilone, Angel Sánchez
In this Letter we present a new perspective for the study of the Public Goods games on complex networks. The idea of our approach is to consider a realistic structure for the group…
Evolutionary Games defined at the Network Mesoscale: The Public Goods game
J. Gómez-Gardeñes, M. Romance, R. Criado +2
The evolutionary dynamics of the Public Goods game addresses the emergence of cooperation within groups of individuals. However, the Public Goods game on large populations of inter…
Random Topologies and the emergence of cooperation: the role of short-cuts
Daniele Vilone, Angel Sánchez, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
We study in detail the role of short-cuts in promoting the emergence of cooperation in a network of agents playing the Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG). We introduce a model whose top…