Statistical physics of human cooperation

M Perc, JJ Jordan, DG Rand, Z Wang, S Boccaletti… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Evolutionary dynamics of group interactions on structured populations: a review

M Perc, J Gómez-Gardenes… - Journal of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interactions among living organisms, from bacteria colonies to human societies, are
inherently more complex than interactions among particles and non-living matter. Group …

Punishment diminishes the benefits of network reciprocity in social dilemma experiments

X Li, M Jusup, Z Wang, H Li, L Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Network reciprocity has been widely advertised in theoretical studies as one of the basic
cooperation-promoting mechanisms, but experimental evidence favoring this type of …

Social efficiency deficit deciphers social dilemmas

MR Arefin, KMA Kabir, M Jusup, H Ito, J Tanimoto - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
What do corruption, resource overexploitation, climate inaction, vaccine hesitancy, traffic
congestion, and even cancer metastasis have in common? All these socioeconomic and …

Emergence of punishment in social dilemma with environmental feedback

Z Wang, Z Song, C Shen, S Hu - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Altruistic punishment (or punishment) has been extensively shown as an important
mechanism for promoting cooperation in human societies. In AI, the emergence of …

Reward and cooperation in the spatial public goods game

A Szolnoki, M Perc - Europhysics Letters, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The promise of punishment and reward in promoting public cooperation is debatable. While
punishment is traditionally considered more successful than reward, the fact that the cost of …

[HTML][HTML] Phase transitions in models of human cooperation

M Perc - Physics Letters A, 2016 - Elsevier
If only the fittest survive, why should one cooperate? Why should one sacrifice personal
benefits for the common good? Recent research indicates that a comprehensive answer to …

Competition and cooperation among different punishing strategies in the spatial public goods game

X Chen, A Szolnoki, M Perc - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Inspired by the fact that people have diverse propensities to punish wrongdoers, we study a
spatial public goods game with defectors and different types of punishing cooperators …

Second-order free-riding on antisocial punishment restores the effectiveness of prosocial punishment

A Szolnoki, M Perc - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Economic experiments have shown that punishment can increase public goods game
contributions over time. However, the effectiveness of punishment is challenged by second …

Grand challenges in social physics: in pursuit of moral behavior

V Capraro, M Perc - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Methods of statistical physics have proven valuable for studying the evolution of cooperation
in social dilemma games. However, recent empirical research shows that cooperative …