Reputation-based partner choice promotes cooperation in social networks
Harvard University · Peking University · +1 more institution
Abstract
We investigate the cooperation dynamics attributed to the interplay between the evolution of individual strategies and evolution of individual partnerships. We focus on the effect of reputation on an individual's partner-switching process. We assume that individuals can either change their strategies by imitating their partners or adjust their partnerships based on local information about reputations. We manipulate the partner switching in two ways; that is, individuals can switch from the lowest reputation partners, either to their partners' partners who have the highest reputation (i.e., ordering in partnership) or to others randomly chosen from the entire population (i.e., randomness in partnership). We…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 75.69
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 68
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4Topics & keywords
- Reputation
- Temptation
- General partnership
- Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)
- Population
- Randomness
- Order (exchange)
- Business
- Partnerships for the goals