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Second-Order Free-Riding on Antisocial Punishment Restores the Effectiveness of Prosocial Punishment

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: The effectiveness of punishment can be challenged by an unwillingness to shoulder the costs of punishment and by noncooperators who punish cooperators. Simulations based on techniques from statistical physics show how these can cancel one another in an unlikely and counterintuitive evolutionary outcome.

Source: Physical Review X

DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.7.041027

Authors: Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc

Institutions: Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Maribor, Complexity Science Hub

Language: English

Topic: Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $4,200