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A new agent-based model offers insight into population-wide adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior

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  • Garry Sotnik
  • Thaddeus Shannon
  • Wayne Wakeland

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New theoretical agent-based model of population-wide adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior with four parameters (initial percent of adopters, pressure to change behavior, synergy from behavior, and population density); dynamics in behavior, movement, freeriding, and group composition and size; and emergence of multilevel group selection. Theoretical analysis of model’s dynamics identified six regions in model’s parameter space, in which pressure-synergy combinations lead to different outcomes: extinction, persistence, and full adoption. Simulation results verified the theoretical analysis and demonstrated that increases in density reduce number of pressure-synergy combinations leading to population-wide adoption; initial percent of contributors affects underlying behavior and final outcomes, but not size of regions or transition zones between them; and random movement assists adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior.

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  • Garry Sotnik & Thaddeus Shannon & Wayne Wakeland, 2023. "A new agent-based model offers insight into population-wide adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior," The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(4), pages 311-338, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:gmasxx:v:47:y:2023:i:4:p:311-338
    DOI: 10.1080/0022250X.2021.2021513
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