Involution game with spatio-temporal heterogeneity of social resources

Wang, Chaoqian; Szolnoki, Attila

doi:10.1016/j.amc.2022.127307

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“…In addition, the social phenomenon of “involution” and the psychology of competition, investigated in this study, are also popular topics of research in economics and mathematics. Several studies have been conducted on related issues ( Wang and Hui, 2021 ; Wang and Szolnoki, 2022 ). The relevance to these fields can also be explored in our subsequent research.…”

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Have you “involution” today—Competition psychology scale for college students

Liu

Yanli²,

Hao³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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In order to investigate the competitive psychology of college students in the current context of fierce social competition, this study compiled a competition psychology scale for college students [i.e., the Competition Psychology Scale for College Students (CPS-CS)]. The scale was administered online to 628 university students in different regions of China. After item analysis, reliability analysis, and validity analysis, a 6-item scale was finally formed. CPS-CS contains four dimensions: hypercompetitive attitude, competitive motivation, personal development, competitive attitude, and competitive interpersonal relationships. The reliability and validity of the CPS-CS developed in this research meet the requirements of psychometrics.

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Have you “involution” today—Competition psychology scale for college students

Liu

Yanli²,

Hao³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Evolutionary games explain the strategic evolution process of selfish individuals [ 27 , 28 ]. Internet platforms, as market operators, have the characteristics of "economic agents."…”

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An evolutionary game-theoretic analysis of the "multi-agent co-governance" system of unfair competition on internet platforms

Xu,

Zheng

2024

PLoS ONE

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The increasingly prominent issue of unfair competition on Internet platforms (IPUC) severely restricts the healthy and sustainable development of the platform economy. Based on the IPUC "multi-agent co-governance" scenario, this paper introduces stochastic disturbances and continuous strategy set to improve the classical binary deterministic evolutionary game system. The results show that after considering stochastic disturbances, the positive state corresponding to the equilibrium point (1,1) is no longer stable, and the required parameter conditions are more stringent. The IPUC "multi-agent co-governance" system under stochastic disturbances exhibits specific vulnerability. In the continuous strategy set evolutionary game system, government departments and Internet platforms can flexibly make optimal decisions based on maximizing expected returns, and strategy selection has better elasticity. Regardless of the evolutionary game scenario, maintaining the participation level of NGOs and the public above a certain threshold while increasing the penalty intensity is conducive to the evolution of the game system toward the positive state. The analysis process and conclusions provide insights and guidance for the governments to design the IPUC regulatory system and frameworks.

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“…The conflict of individual and collective interests, often called as a social dilemma, is the central problem of several game-theoretical models, including prisoner's dilemma game [5][6][7][8], snowdrift game [9][10][11], stag-hunt game [12][13][14], ultimatum game [15][16][17][18], trust game [19][20][21], donation game [22][23][24], or recently proposed involution game [25][26][27], including the N-person versions of these games [28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. The common…”

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A reversed form of public goods game: equivalence and difference

Wang

Szolnoki

2022

New J. Phys.

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According to the public goods game (PGG) protocol, participants decide freely whether they want to contribute to a common pool or not, but the resulting benefit is distributed equally. A conceptually similar dilemma situation may emerge when participants consider if they claim a common resource but the related cost is covered equally by all group members. The latter establishes a reversed form of the original public goods game (R-PGG). In this work, we show that R-PGG is equivalent to PGG in several circumstances, starting from the traditional analysis, via the evolutionary approach in unstructured populations, to Monte Carlo simulations in structured populations. However, there are also cases when the behavior of R-PGG could be surprisingly different from the outcome of PGG. When the key parameters are heterogeneous, for instance, the results of PGG and R-PGG could be diverse even if we apply the same amplitudes of heterogeneity. We find that the heterogeneity in R-PGG generally impedes cooperation, while the opposite is observed for PGG. These diverse system reactions can be understood if we follow how payoff functions change when introducing heterogeneity in the parameter space. This analysis also reveals the distinct roles of cooperator and defector strategies in the mentioned games. Our observations may hopefully stimulate further research to check the potential differences between PGG and R-PGG due to the alternative complexity of conditions.

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Involution game with spatio-temporal heterogeneity of social resources

Cited by 11 publications

References 74 publications

Have you “involution” today—Competition psychology scale for college students

Have you “involution” today—Competition psychology scale for college students

An evolutionary game-theoretic analysis of the "multi-agent co-governance" system of unfair competition on internet platforms

A reversed form of public goods game: equivalence and difference

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