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Altruistic Punishment, Social Structure and the Enforcement of Social Norms

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005)

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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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  1. CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science, GPO Box 284, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    David Newth

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  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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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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