Modelling social dynamics (of obesity) and thresholds

DOI10.3390/G1040395MaRDI QIDQ2344950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gustav Feichtinger, Franz Wirl

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Games (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/g1040395

zbMATH Keywords

history dependenceobesitysocial interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of game theory (91A80) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Review text

Summary: This paper focuses on the dynamic aspects of individual behavior affected by its social embedding, either at large (society-wide norms or averages) or at a local neighborhood. The emphasis is on how initial conditions can affect the long run outcome and to derive, discuss and apply the conditions for such thresholds. For this purpose, intertemporal social pressure (from peers, from norms, or from fashions) is modelled in two different ways: (i) individual benefit is influenced by the possession of a stock (in the application: weight) and the society wide average, and (ii) individual benefits depend on a norm that follows its own motion, of course driven by agents' behavior. The topical issue of obesity serves as motivation and corresponding models and examples are presented and analyzed.

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