Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change

MJ Gelfand, S Gavrilets, N Nunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms

U Hertz - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Social norms govern and prescribe how group members behave. Since norms manifest in
individuals' behavior, it is important to consider the cognitive demands associated with …

A learning agent that acquires social norms from public sanctions in decentralized multi-agent settings

E Vinitsky, R Köster, JP Agapiou… - Collective …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Society is characterized by the presence of a variety of social norms: collective patterns of
sanctioning that can prevent miscoordination and free-riding. Inspired by this, we aim to …

Get it in writing: Formal contracts mitigate social dilemmas in multi-agent rl

PJK Christoffersen, AA Haupt… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a powerful tool for training automated systems
acting independently in a common environment. However, it can lead to sub-optimal …

Reputation-based interaction promotes cooperation with reinforcement learning

T Ren, XJ Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamical interaction represents a fundamental coevolutionary rule that addresses the
intricacies of cooperation in social dilemmas. It provides a normative account for the …

Exploring the impact of predictive analytics on accounting and auditing expertise: A regression analysis of LinkedIn survey data

OO Adebiyi - Available at SSRN 4626506, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Considering the recent development of big data and its application in various business and
management endeavors, there is a growing need for businesses and management of …

The cognitive origin and cultural evolution of taboos in human societies

Z Hong - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Why do human societies have so many taboos, defined here as culturally prohibited
activities? In this article, I offer a naturalistic account of the origin and transmission of taboos …

Formal contracts mitigate social dilemmas in multi-agent reinforcement learning

A Haupt, P Christoffersen, M Damani… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a powerful tool for training
autonomous agents acting independently in a common environment. However, it can lead to …

Model-free conventions in multi-agent reinforcement learning with heterogeneous preferences

R Köster, KR McKee, R Everett, L Weidinger… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Game theoretic views of convention generally rest on notions of common knowledge and
hyper-rational models of individual behavior. However, decades of work in behavioral …

System neural diversity: measuring behavioral heterogeneity in multi-agent learning

M Bettini, A Shankar, A Prorok - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02128, 2023 - arxiv.org
Evolutionary science provides evidence that diversity confers resilience. Yet, traditional multi-
agent reinforcement learning techniques commonly enforce homogeneity to increase …