THE EMERGENCE OF COOPERATION THROUGH ATTITUDE AND EMOTIONAL EVALUATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ITERATED PRISONER’S DILEMMA

• Main Author: Ndari Ardianto, Rafi
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67825
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Cooperation issue has always been the centre of attention in everyday life. Numerous studies have come up to help us understand the emergence of cooperation in our community. One of the most prevalent studies of cooperation are through the lens of social dilemma—the conflict of rationality and relational integration. Game Theory has been established as the framework for predicting rationality during multi-actor interactions. However, experimental studies have shown that Game Theory's prediction often fails to predict actors' deviation from rationality. Other studies, thus, proposed the role of prosocial tendency and emotional factor in the human decision-making process model. This study aims to tackle this decision-making model by introducing a static and dynamic component in interaction. The study employed the Relational Dominant Strategy of Inohara (2008) as the static components that represent the player's interaction structure and prosocial tendency. The game used in this study is the Prisoner’s Dilemma game for its common use in social dilemma observations. It is then implemented in the agent-based simulation system as the basis for the dynamic system. The dynamic components consist of emotional evaluation and payoff comparison. The emotions used in this study are gratitude, guilt, disappointment, and envy—derived from the information provided by the static components. The study first and foremost objective is to build an upstream reciprocity mechanism that is widely observed as the emerging process of cooperation. Then it is expanded to accommodate other emotional factors to see the distinct dynamic of cooperation. The study found that the proposed model can achieve the upstream reciprocity mechanism. It is also observed that other emotion, particularly Envy could induce different dynamics of cooperation in the system. Finally, the study found that several attitudes are emerging in the system related to either the rise or fall of cooperation.