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Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory
Nature shows as human beings live and grow inside social structures. This assumption allows us to explain and explore how it may shape most of our behaviours and choices, and why we are not just blindly driven by instincts: our decisions are based on more complex cognitive reasons, based on our conn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26496351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140646 |
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author | Di Stefano, Alessandro Scatà, Marialisa La Corte, Aurelio Liò, Pietro Catania, Emanuele Guardo, Ermanno Pagano, Salvatore |
author_facet | Di Stefano, Alessandro Scatà, Marialisa La Corte, Aurelio Liò, Pietro Catania, Emanuele Guardo, Ermanno Pagano, Salvatore |
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description | Nature shows as human beings live and grow inside social structures. This assumption allows us to explain and explore how it may shape most of our behaviours and choices, and why we are not just blindly driven by instincts: our decisions are based on more complex cognitive reasons, based on our connectedness on different spaces. Thus, human cooperation emerges from this complex nature of social network. Our paper, focusing on the evolutionary dynamics, is intended to explore how and why it happens, and what kind of impact is caused by homophily among people. We investigate the evolution of human cooperation using evolutionary game theory on multiplex. Multiplexity, as an extra dimension of analysis, allows us to unveil the hidden dynamics and observe non-trivial patterns within a population across network layers. More importantly, we find a striking role of homophily, as the higher the homophily between individuals, the quicker is the convergence towards cooperation in the social dilemma. The simulation results, conducted both macroscopically and microscopically across the network layers in the multiplex, show quantitatively the role of homophily in human cooperation. |
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spelling | pubmed-46197982015-10-29 Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory Di Stefano, Alessandro Scatà, Marialisa La Corte, Aurelio Liò, Pietro Catania, Emanuele Guardo, Ermanno Pagano, Salvatore PLoS One Research Article Nature shows as human beings live and grow inside social structures. This assumption allows us to explain and explore how it may shape most of our behaviours and choices, and why we are not just blindly driven by instincts: our decisions are based on more complex cognitive reasons, based on our connectedness on different spaces. Thus, human cooperation emerges from this complex nature of social network. Our paper, focusing on the evolutionary dynamics, is intended to explore how and why it happens, and what kind of impact is caused by homophily among people. We investigate the evolution of human cooperation using evolutionary game theory on multiplex. Multiplexity, as an extra dimension of analysis, allows us to unveil the hidden dynamics and observe non-trivial patterns within a population across network layers. More importantly, we find a striking role of homophily, as the higher the homophily between individuals, the quicker is the convergence towards cooperation in the social dilemma. The simulation results, conducted both macroscopically and microscopically across the network layers in the multiplex, show quantitatively the role of homophily in human cooperation. Public Library of Science 2015-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4619798/ /pubmed/26496351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140646 Text en © 2015 Di Stefano et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Di Stefano, Alessandro Scatà, Marialisa La Corte, Aurelio Liò, Pietro Catania, Emanuele Guardo, Ermanno Pagano, Salvatore Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory |
title | Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory |
title_full | Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory |
title_fullStr | Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory |
title_short | Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory |
title_sort | quantifying the role of homophily in human cooperation using multiplex evolutionary game theory |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26496351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140646 |
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