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Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness
The ‘irrational’ preference for fairness has attracted increasing attention. Although previous studies have focused on the effects of spitefulness on the evolution of fairness, they did not consider non-monotonic rejections shown in behavioral experiments. In this paper, we introduce a non-monotonic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29718977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196524 |
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description | The ‘irrational’ preference for fairness has attracted increasing attention. Although previous studies have focused on the effects of spitefulness on the evolution of fairness, they did not consider non-monotonic rejections shown in behavioral experiments. In this paper, we introduce a non-monotonic rejection in an evolutionary model of the Ultimatum Game. We propose strategy intervention to study the evolution of fairness in general structured populations. By sequentially adding five strategies into the competition between a fair strategy and a selfish strategy, we arrive at the following conclusions. First, the evolution of fairness is inhibited by altruism, but it is promoted by spitefulness. Second, the non-monotonic rejection helps fairness overcome selfishness. Particularly for group-structured populations, we analytically investigate how fairness, selfishness, altruism, and spitefulness are affected by population size, mutation, and migration in the competition among seven strategies. Our results may provide important insights into understanding the evolutionary origin of fairness. |
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spelling | pubmed-59314962018-05-11 Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness Zhang, Yanling Fu, Feng PLoS One Research Article The ‘irrational’ preference for fairness has attracted increasing attention. Although previous studies have focused on the effects of spitefulness on the evolution of fairness, they did not consider non-monotonic rejections shown in behavioral experiments. In this paper, we introduce a non-monotonic rejection in an evolutionary model of the Ultimatum Game. We propose strategy intervention to study the evolution of fairness in general structured populations. By sequentially adding five strategies into the competition between a fair strategy and a selfish strategy, we arrive at the following conclusions. First, the evolution of fairness is inhibited by altruism, but it is promoted by spitefulness. Second, the non-monotonic rejection helps fairness overcome selfishness. Particularly for group-structured populations, we analytically investigate how fairness, selfishness, altruism, and spitefulness are affected by population size, mutation, and migration in the competition among seven strategies. Our results may provide important insights into understanding the evolutionary origin of fairness. Public Library of Science 2018-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5931496/ /pubmed/29718977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196524 Text en © 2018 Zhang, Fu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zhang, Yanling Fu, Feng Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
title | Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
title_full | Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
title_fullStr | Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
title_full_unstemmed | Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
title_short | Strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
title_sort | strategy intervention for the evolution of fairness |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29718977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196524 |
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