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The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game
In daily life, some people are always seen dedicating available resources to support collective activities. In this paper, we call these people who care group goals more than individual goals dedicators. Inspired by this phenomenon, we studied the role of dedicators on the evolution of cooperation i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8452022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34543308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257475 |
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author | Wu, Zhenghong Huang, Huan Liao, Qinghu |
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description | In daily life, some people are always seen dedicating available resources to support collective activities. In this paper, we call these people who care group goals more than individual goals dedicators. Inspired by this phenomenon, we studied the role of dedicators on the evolution of cooperation in public goods game (PGG) based on a Chinese Folk Spring Festival Gala. Three types of agents were introduced into our PGG model including cooperators, defectors and dedicators. Dedicators tried to donate when the Gala was short of funds. Cooperators and defectors imitated the strategy of the highest-payoff neighbor based on the rational mechanism. And their imitating probability was modified on account of the emotional mechanism for positive effect of the dedicator’s donating behavior and negative effect of continuous poor performance. Through numerical simulations, we found that the existence of dedicators can indeed promote cooperation in PGG. It should be noted that dedicators’ willingness to donate was more important than their donation quantity in facilitating cooperation. And the stronger the emotional effect intensity of dedicators’ donating behavior was, the better. So, the selfless dedication of participants should be praised to promote cooperation by improving their emotional effect intensity. Last but not least, a reasonable activity budget was needed to sustain the highest level of cooperation. |
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spelling | pubmed-84520222021-09-21 The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game Wu, Zhenghong Huang, Huan Liao, Qinghu PLoS One Research Article In daily life, some people are always seen dedicating available resources to support collective activities. In this paper, we call these people who care group goals more than individual goals dedicators. Inspired by this phenomenon, we studied the role of dedicators on the evolution of cooperation in public goods game (PGG) based on a Chinese Folk Spring Festival Gala. Three types of agents were introduced into our PGG model including cooperators, defectors and dedicators. Dedicators tried to donate when the Gala was short of funds. Cooperators and defectors imitated the strategy of the highest-payoff neighbor based on the rational mechanism. And their imitating probability was modified on account of the emotional mechanism for positive effect of the dedicator’s donating behavior and negative effect of continuous poor performance. Through numerical simulations, we found that the existence of dedicators can indeed promote cooperation in PGG. It should be noted that dedicators’ willingness to donate was more important than their donation quantity in facilitating cooperation. And the stronger the emotional effect intensity of dedicators’ donating behavior was, the better. So, the selfless dedication of participants should be praised to promote cooperation by improving their emotional effect intensity. Last but not least, a reasonable activity budget was needed to sustain the highest level of cooperation. Public Library of Science 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8452022/ /pubmed/34543308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257475 Text en © 2021 Wu et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://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 Wu, Zhenghong Huang, Huan Liao, Qinghu The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
title | The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
title_full | The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
title_fullStr | The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
title_full_unstemmed | The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
title_short | The study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
title_sort | study on the role of dedicators on promoting cooperation in public goods game |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8452022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34543308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257475 |
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