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Second-order freeriding on antisocial punishment restores the effectiveness of prosocial punishment
Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc
Economic experiments have shown that punishment can increase public goods game contributions over time. However, the effectiveness of punishment is challenged by second-order freer…
Alliance formation with exclusion in the spatial public goods game
Attila Szolnoki, Xiaojie Chen
Detecting defection and alarming partners about the possible danger could be essential to avoid being exploited. This act, however, may require a huge individual effort from those…
Statistical physics of human cooperation
Matjaz Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand +3
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable t…
Competitions between prosocial exclusions and punishments in finite populations
Linjie Liu, Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki
Prosocial punishment has been proved to be a powerful mean to promote cooperation. Recent studies have found that social exclusion, which indeed can be regarded as a kind of punish…
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…