Evolution of honesty in higher-order social networks

Kumar, Aanjaneya, Chowdhary, Sandeep, Capraro, Valerio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0579-0166 and Perc, Matjaž ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3087-541X (2021) Evolution of honesty in higher-order social networks. Physical Review E, 104 (5-1) , 054308. ISSN 2470-0045 [Article] (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.054308)

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Abstract

Sender-receiver games are simple models of information transmission that provide a formalism to study the evolution of honest signaling and deception between a sender and a receiver. In many practical scenarios, lies often affect groups of receivers, which inevitably entangles the payoffs of individuals to the payoffs of other agents in their group, and this makes the formalism of pairwise sender-receiver games inapt for where it might be useful the most. We therefore introduce group interactions among receivers and study how their interconnectedness in higher-order social networks affects the evolution of lying. We observe a number of counterintuitive results that are rooted in the complexity of the underlying evolutionary dynamics, which has thus far remained hidden in the realm of pairwise interactions. We find conditions for honesty to persist even when there is a temptation to lie, and we observe the prevalence of moral strategy profiles even when lies favor the receiver at a cost to the sender. We confirm the robustness of our results by further performing simulations on hypergraphs created from real-world data using the SocioPatterns database. Altogether, our results provide persuasive evidence that moral behavior may evolve on higher-order social networks, at least as long as individuals interact in groups that are small compared to the size of the network.

Item Type: Article
Research Areas: A. > Business School > Economics
Item ID: 34479
Notes on copyright: The Final accepted version (with author's formatting) file reproduced here is from https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12804v2 where it is posted under a Creative Commons Attribution license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2022 09:34
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2022 06:06
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/34479

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