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The emergence of cooperative behavior based on random payoff and heterogeneity of concerning social image

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  • Qian, Jia-Li
  • Zhou, Yin-Xiang
  • Hao, Qing-Yi

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The heterogeneity among individuals in a group usually leads to the volatility of the individual’s income in the game and the difference in the attention paid to the individual’s social image. This paper proposes a spatial prisoner’s dilemma model with random fluctuations of temptation returns and the social images of individuals considered. The payoff of a defector in the game with a cooperator is set as a random variable. And the social image value of an individual who holds the cooperative strategy is set to a positive value, while the social image value of an individual who holds defective strategy is set to zero. Some individuals in the group care about the social images, while others do not. Social image values and benefits are combined into the fitness of individual. The learning strategy adopted is the combination of optimal fitness and Fermi rule based on return difference.

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  • Qian, Jia-Li & Zhou, Yin-Xiang & Hao, Qing-Yi, 2024. "The emergence of cooperative behavior based on random payoff and heterogeneity of concerning social image," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chsofr:v:179:y:2024:i:c:s0960077923013073
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2023.114405
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