Evolutionary game dynamics of controlled and automatic decision-making

DOI10.1063/1.4927488MaRDI QIDQ4591703zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Danielle F. P. Toupo, Jonathan D. Cohen, David G. Rand, Steven Strogatz

Publication date 17 November 2017

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01561

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evolutionary games (91A22) Decision theory (91B06)

Abstract: We integrate dual-process theories of human cognition with evolutionary game theory to study the evolution of automatic and controlled decision-making processes. We introduce a model where agents who make decisions using either automatic or controlled processing compete with each other for survival. Agents using automatic processing act quickly and so are more likely to acquire resources, but agents using controlled processing are better planners and so make more effective use of the resources they have. Using the replicator equation, we characterize the conditions under which automatic or controlled agents dominate, when coexistence is possible, and when bistability occurs. We then extend the replicator equation to consider feedback between the state of the population and the environment. Under conditions where having a greater proportion of controlled agents either enriches the environment or enhances the competitive advantage of automatic agents, we find that limit cycles can occur, leading to persistent oscillations in the population dynamics. Critically, however, these limit cycles only emerge when feedback occurs on a sufficiently long time scale. Our results shed light on the connection between evolution and human cognition, and demonstrate necessary conditions for the rise and fall of rationality.

Recommendations

• Evolutionary Game Theory and Population Dynamics
• Evolutionary game theory: a renaissance
• Limit cycles analysis and control of evolutionary game dynamics with environmental feedback
• Evolutionary game theory
• Evolutionary game dynamics

Cites work

• Evolutionary dynamics of a system with periodic coefficients
• Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation
• Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics
• Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
• The importance of being discrete (and spatial)

Cited in

(9)

• Cooperation in memory-based prisoner's dilemma game on interdependent networks
• The role of implicit motives in strategic decision-making: computational models of motivated learning and the evolution of motivated agents
• Allee effect induced diversity in evolutionary dynamics
• Limit cycles analysis and control of evolutionary game dynamics with environmental feedback
• Behavioural isomorphism, cognitive economy and recursive thought in non-transitive game strategy
• Consensus towards partially cooperative strategies in self-regulated evolutionary games on networks
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4131990 (Why is no real title available?)
• Dynamically unstable ESS in matrix games under time constraints
• Evolution of mindsight and psychological commitment among strategically interacting agents

This page was built for publication: Evolutionary game dynamics of controlled and automatic decision-making

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4591703)