Improving environment drives dynamical change in social game structure

Erika Chiba; Diane Carmeliza N Cuaresma; Jomar F Rabajante; Jerrold M Tubay; Maica Krizna Areja Gavina; Tatsuki Yamamoto; Jin Yoshimura; Satoru Morita; Hiromu Ito; Takuya Okabe

doi:10.1098/rsos.201166

Improving environment drives dynamical change in social game structure

R Soc Open Sci. 2021 May 5;8(5):201166. doi: 10.1098/rsos.201166.

Authors

Erika Chiba¹, Diane Carmeliza N Cuaresma^{2

3}, Jomar F Rabajante^{3

4}, Jerrold M Tubay³, Maica Krizna Areja Gavina³, Tatsuki Yamamoto⁵, Jin Yoshimura^{1

6

7

8

9

10}, Satoru Morita^{1

2}, Hiromu Ito^{6

11}, Takuya Okabe^{1

12}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan.
² Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan.
³ Mathematics Division, Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna 4031, Philippines.
⁴ Faculty of Education, University of the Philippines Open University, College, Laguna 4031, Philippines.
⁵ Star Micronics Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8654, Japan.
⁶ Department of International Health and Medical Anthropology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
⁸ The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
⁹ Marine Biosystems Research Center, Chiba University, Uchiura, Kamogawa, Chiba 299-5502, Japan.
¹⁰ Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
¹¹ Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology, University of Basel, Basel 4051, Switzerland.
¹² Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan.

Abstract

The development of cooperation in human societies is a major unsolved problem in biological and social sciences. Extensive studies in game theory have shown that cooperative behaviour can evolve only under very limited conditions or with additional complexities, such as spatial structure. Non-trivial two-person games are categorized into three types of games, namely, the prisoner's dilemma game, the chicken game and the stag hunt game. Recently, the weight-lifting game has been shown to cover all five games depending on the success probability of weight lifting, which include the above three games and two trivial cases (all cooperation and all defection; conventionally not distinguished as separate classes). Here, we introduce the concept of the environmental value of a society. Cultural development and deterioration are represented by changes in this probability. We discuss cultural evolution in human societies and the biological communities of living systems.

Keywords: changing social structure; hawk-dove game; prisoner's dilemma game; stag hunt game; weight-lifting game.

Associated data

figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5411352