Network Engineering Using Autonomous Agents Increases Cooperation in Human Groups

Summary: Cooperation in human groups is challenging, and various mechanisms are required to sustain it, although it nevertheless usually decays over time. Here, we perform theoretically informed experiments involving networks of humans (1,024 subjects in 64 networks) playing a public-goods game to w...

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Main Authors: Hirokazu Shirado, Nicholas A. Christakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220306301