Promoting cooperation by punishing minority

被引:111
作者
Yang, Han-Xin [1 ]
Chen, Xiaojie [2 ]
机构
[1] Fuzhou Univ, Dept Phys, Fuzhou 350116, Fujian, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Elect Sci & Technol China, Sch Math Sci, Chengdu 611731, Sichuan, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Public goods game; Cooperation; Punishment; Majority; PRISONERS-DILEMMA GAME; PUBLIC-GOODS GAME; PUNISHMENT; REJECTION; MECHANISM; CHAOS;
D O I
10.1016/j.amc.2017.08.049
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
Punishment is an effective way to sustain cooperation among selfish individuals. In most of previous studies, objects of punishment are set to be defectors. In this paper, we propose a mechanism of punishment, in which individuals with the majority strategy will punish those with the minority strategy in a public goods game group. Both theoretical analysis and simulation show that the cooperation level can be greatly enhanced by punishing minority. For no punishment or small values of punishment fine, the fraction of cooperators continuously increases with the multiplication factor. However, for large values of punishment fine, there exists a critical value of multiplication factor, at which the fraction of cooperators suddenly jumps from 0 to 1. The density of different types of groups is also studied. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码:460 / 466
页数:7
相关论文
共 46 条
[1]   Competition and cooperation among different punishing strategies in the spatial public goods game [J].
Chen, Xiaojie ;
Szolnoki, Attila ;
Perc, Matjaz .
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2015, 92 (01)
[2]   Probabilistic sharing solves the problem of costly punishment [J].
Chen, Xiaojie ;
Szolnoki, Attila ;
Perc, Matjaz .
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 2014, 16
[3]   Risk-driven migration and the collective-risk social dilemma [J].
Chen, Xiaojie ;
Szolnoki, Attila ;
Perc, Matjaz .
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2012, 86 (03)
[4]   Selfish punishment with avoiding mechanism can alleviate both first-order and second-order social dilemma [J].
Cui, Pengbi ;
Wu, Zhi-Xi .
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 2014, 361 :111-123
[5]   Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion [J].
Eisenberger, NI ;
Lieberman, MD ;
Williams, KD .
SCIENCE, 2003, 302 (5643) :290-292
[6]   Dynamical organization of cooperation in complex topologies [J].
Gomez-Gardenes, J. ;
Campillo, M. ;
Floria, L. M. ;
Moreno, Y. .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2007, 98 (10)
[7]   Extortion under uncertainty: Zero-determinant strategies in noisy games [J].
Hao, Dong ;
Rong, Zhihai ;
Zhou, Tao .
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2015, 91 (05)
[8]   Volunteering as Red Queen mechanism for cooperation in public goods games [J].
Hauert, C ;
De Monte, S ;
Hofbauer, J ;
Sigmund, K .
SCIENCE, 2002, 296 (5570) :1129-1132
[9]   Punish, but not too hard: how costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game [J].
Helbing, Dirk ;
Szolnoki, Attila ;
Perc, Matjaz ;
Szabo, Gyoergy .
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 2010, 12
[10]   Defector-accelerated cooperativeness and punishment in public goods games with mutations [J].
Helbing, Dirk ;
Szolnoki, Attila ;
Perc, Matjaz ;
Szabo, Gyoergy .
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2010, 81 (05)