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In many social dilemmas, individuals are each better off acting in their own best interest. Social norms provide a mechanism by which group level order can emerge. Often the enforcement of a social norm requires some altruistic punishment. In this paper I explore the role of social structure in the emergence of group level order, in a variation of n-person Prisoners Dilemma played out on a network. The results from this study show that clustering plays an important role in the formation of cohesive groups.
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Newth, D. (2005). Altruistic Punishment, Social Structure and the Enforcement of Social Norms. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3683. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553939_114
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