Consistent Strategy Updating in Spatial and Non-Spatial Behavioral Experiments Does Not Promote Cooperation in Social Networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Grujić, Jelena ^a   Röhl, Torsten ^b   Semmann, Dirk ^c   Milinski, Manfred ^b   Traulsen, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Research Group Evolution of Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84869845898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047718     Document Type: Article

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