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Adaptive conformity, where individuals adjust their behavior based on payoffs and social cues, significantly promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. This dynamic approach is more effective than static conformity in fostering cooperation across various conditions.

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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary game theory
  • Behavioral economics
  • Network science

Background:

  • Individual payoff maximization is a key driver, but human decisions are influenced by uncertainty, risk, and social pressure.
  • Conformity shapes cooperation in social dilemmas, but prior models treated it as a static trait, ignoring environmental adaptability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and analyze an adaptive conformity model for the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas.
  • To investigate how dynamic conformity adjustments impact cooperation compared to static models.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an adaptive conformity model where individuals update their tendency based on local vs. global payoffs.
  • Incorporated a satisfaction threshold and memory length to modulate conformity updates.
  • Conducted systematic simulations across diverse social dilemmas and network topologies.

    • Main Results:

    • Adaptive conformity significantly broadens the conditions for cooperation emergence and persistence compared to static models.
    • A satisfaction threshold has a nonlinear effect, while longer memory lengths tend to suppress cooperation.
    • Robust cooperation promotion observed even in severe dilemmas and heterogeneous networks.

    Conclusions:

    • Adaptive conformity offers a dynamic mechanism to enhance cooperation in social dilemmas.
    • This model provides a more realistic representation of human behavior and its impact on collective action.
    • Adaptive conformity presents a promising strategy for mitigating social dilemmas in complex social structures.