Promoting cooperation by punishing minority

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DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2017.08.049zbMATH Open1427.91047arXiv1802.01257OpenAlexW2963371909MaRDI QIDQ1740441FDOQ1740441


Authors: Han-Xin Yang, Xiaojie Chen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 30 April 2019

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Punishment is an effective way to sustain cooperation among selfish individuals. In most of previous studies, objects of punishment are set to be defectors. In this paper, we propose a mechanism of punishment, in which individuals with the majority strategy will punish those with the minority strategy in a public goods game group. Both theoretical analysis and simulation show that the cooperation level can be greatly enhanced by punishing minority. For no punishment or small values of punishment fine, the fraction of cooperators continuously increases with the multiplication factor. However, for large values of punishment fine, there exists a critical value of multiplication factor, at which the fraction of cooperators suddenly jumps from 0 to 1. The density of different types of groups is also studied.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01257




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