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Emotion, Trustworthiness and Altruistic Punishment in a Tragedy of the Commons Social Dilemma

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Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI 2017)

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Social dilemmas require individuals to tradeoff self interests against group interests. Considerable research effort has attempted to identify conditions that promote cooperation in these social dilemmas. It has previously been shown altruistic punishment can help promote cooperation but the mechanisms that make it work are not well understood. We have designed a multi-agent system to investigate altruistic punishment in tragedy of the commons social dilemmas. Players develop emotional responses as they interact with others. A zero order Seguno fuzzy system is used to model the player emotional responses. Players change strategies when their emotional level exceeds a personal emotional threshold. Trustworthiness of how other players will act in the future helps choose the new strategy. Our results show how strategies evolve in a finite population match predictions made using discrete replicator equations.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Garrison Greenwood

  2. School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2600, Australia

    Hussein A. Abbass

  3. Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Eleni Petraki

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  1. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Markus Wagner

  2. RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Xiaodong Li

  3. Swinburne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Tim Hendtlass

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Greenwood, G., Abbass, H.A., Petraki, E. (2017). Emotion, Trustworthiness and Altruistic Punishment in a Tragedy of the Commons Social Dilemma. In: Wagner, M., Li, X., Hendtlass, T. (eds) Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence. ACALCI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51691-2_2

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