A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner's Dilemma experiments: Conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance

Grujic, Jelena ; Gracia-Lázaro, Carlos (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Milinski, Manfred ; Semmann, Dirk ; Traulsen, Arne ; Cuesta, José A. ; Moreno, Yamir (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Sánchez, Angel

Resumen: We have carried out a comparative analysis of data collected in three experiments on Prisoner's Dilemmas on lattices available in the literature. We focus on the different ways in which the behavior of human subjects can be interpreted, in order to empirically narrow down the possibilities for behavioral rules. Among the proposed update dynamics, we find that the experiments do not provide significant evidence for non-innovative game dynamics such as imitate-the-best or pairwise comparison rules, whereas moody conditional cooperation is supported by the data from all three experiments. This conclusion questions the applicability of many theoretical models that have been proposed to understand human behavior in spatial Prisoner's Dilemmas. A rule compatible with all our experiments, moody conditional cooperation, suggests that there is no detectable influence of interaction networks on the emergence of cooperation in behavioral experiments.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1038/srep04615

Año: 2014

Publicado en: Scientific reports 4 (2014), 4615 [9 pp.]
ISSN: 2045-2322

Factor impacto JCR: 5.578 (2014)

Categ. JCR: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES rank: 5 / 57 = 0.088 (2014) - Q1 - T1

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/317532/EU/Foundational Research on MULTIlevel comPLEX networks and systems/MULTIPLEX
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/317672/EU/Dynamics and COevolution in Multi-Level Strategic INteraction GAmeS/CONGAS
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2011-25167

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Teórica (Dpto. Física Teórica)