Statistical physics of human cooperation

M Perc, JJ Jordan, DG Rand, Z Wang, S Boccaletti… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization

JM Pacheco, VV Vasconcelos, FC Santos - Physics of life reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
When attempting to avoid global warming, individuals often face a social dilemma in which,
besides securing future benefits, it is also necessary to reduce the chances of future losses …

Grand challenges in social physics: in pursuit of moral behavior

V Capraro, M Perc - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Methods of statistical physics have proven valuable for studying the evolution of cooperation
in social dilemma games. However, recent empirical research shows that cooperative …

Social norms of cooperation in small-scale societies

FP Santos, FC Santos, JM Pacheco - PLoS computational biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Indirect reciprocity, besides providing a convenient framework to address the evolution of
moral systems, offers a simple and plausible explanation for the prevalence of cooperation …

Collective influence in evolutionary social dilemmas

A Szolnoki, M Perc - Europhysics Letters, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
When evolutionary games are contested in structured populations, the degree of each
player in the network plays an important role. If they exist, hubs often determine the fate of …

Cost-effective external interference for promoting the evolution of cooperation

TA Han, L Tran-Thanh - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The problem of promoting the evolution of cooperative behaviour within populations of self-
regarding individuals has been intensively investigated across diverse fields of behavioural …

Consensus and polarization in competing complex contagion processes

VV Vasconcelos, SA Levin… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The rate of adoption of new information depends on reinforcement from multiple sources in a
way that often cannot be described by simple contagion processes. In such cases, contagion …

Linking individual and collective behavior in adaptive social networks

FL Pinheiro, FC Santos, JM Pacheco - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Adaptive social structures are known to promote the evolution of cooperation. However, up
to now the characterization of the collective, population-wide dynamics resulting from the …

Identification of influential invaders in evolutionary populations

G Yang, TP Benko, M Cavaliere, J Huang, M Perc - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The identification of the most influential nodes has been a vibrant subject of research across
the whole of network science. Here we map this problem to structured evolutionary …

Evolution of cooperation under indirect reciprocity and arbitrary exploration rates

FP Santos, JM Pacheco, FC Santos - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Cooperation has been recognized as an evolutionary puzzle since Darwin, and remains
identified as one of the biggest challenges of the XXIst century. Indirect Reciprocity (IR), a …