Maintaining trust when agents can engage in self-deception
| Autor: | Andrés Babino, Mariano Sigman, Hernán A. Makse, Rafael DiTella |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Deception
media_common.quotation_subject Culture COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Social Sciences Behavioral economics Social preferences SELF-DECEPTION 0502 economics and business Humans 050207 economics Cooperative Behavior COOPERATION 050205 econometrics media_common Multidisciplinary Distrust Psychological research Otras Ciencias Naturales y Exactas 05 social sciences CORRUPTION Ambiguity Prisoner Dilemma Models Theoretical Dilemma Instinct Self-deception BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Psychology Professional Misconduct Social psychology CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115(35) |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 |
| Popis: | The coexistence of cooperation and selfish instincts is a remarkable characteristic of humans. Psychological research has unveiled the cognitive mechanisms behind self-deception. Two important findings are that a higher ambiguity about others’ social preferences leads to a higher likelihood of acting selfishly and that agents acting selfishly will increase their belief that others are also selfish. In this work, we posit a mathematical model of these mechanisms and explain their impact on the undermining of a global cooperative society. We simulate the behavior of agents playing a prisoner’s dilemma game in a random network of contacts. We endow each agent with these two self-deception mechanisms which bias her toward thinking that the other agent will defect. We study behavior when a fraction of agents with the “always defect” strategy is introduced in the network. Depending on the magnitude of the biases the players could start a cascade of defection or isolate the defectors. We find that there are thresholds above which the system approaches a state of complete distrust. Fil: Babino, Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física; Argentina Fil: Makse, Hernán Alejandro. City College of New York. Levich Institute; Estados Unidos Fil: Acosta Martínez, Delvis Rafael. Harvard University; Estados Unidos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Canadá Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina |
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