Data-driven evolutionary game models for the spread of fairness and cooperation in heterogeneous networks.

ABSTRACT: Unique large-scale cooperation and fairness norms are essential to human society, but the emergence of prosocial behaviors is elusive. The fact that heterogeneous social networks prevail raised a hypothesis that heterogeneous networks facilitate fairness and cooperation. However, the hypothesis has not been validated experimentally, and little is known about the evolutionary psychological basis of cooperation and fairness in human networks. Fortunately, research about oxytocin, a neuropeptide, may provide novel ideas for confirming the hypothesis. Recent oxytocin-modulated network game experiments observed that intranasal administration of oxytocin to a few central individuals significantly increases global fairness and cooperation. Here, based on the experimental phenomena and data, we sh

SUBMITTER: Li JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10204145 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature