Information cascades and the collapse of cooperation

• Main Authors: Yang, Guoli, Csikász-Nagy, Attila, Waites, William, Xiao, Gaoxi, Cavaliere, Matteo
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Complex Networks; Social Evolution
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146116
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In various types of structured communities newcomers choose their interaction partners by selecting a role-model and copying their social networks. Participants in these networks may be cooperators who contribute to the prosperity of the community, or cheaters who do not and simply exploit the coope...