Partner choice promotes cooperation: The two faces of testing with agent-based models

Campennì, Marco; Schino, Gabriele

doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.11.019

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“…tolerating the proximity of others), as well as social grooming behaviour, are considered as prerequisites for animal social bonds, and, like friendships, they are further assumed to require mutuality and positive interactions (Asakawa-Haas et al, 2016; Brosnan et al, 2015; Massen, Sterck, & De Vos, 2010; van Zalk & Denissen, 2015; Watts, 2002). Considering homophily in Connectedness as partner choice mechanisms in Assamese macaques, similar needs of proximity and similar level of social tolerance (scoring either high or low in Connectedness), may be associated with increased trust in reciprocal relations with bond partners, to maintain bonds and facilitate cooperation (Campennì & Schino, 2014; Laakasuo, Rotkirch, Berg, & Jokela, 2016; Massen & Koski, 2014). Cooperative success and bond maintenance are intertwined regarding social bonds as alliances that generate adaptive benefits via support in critical situations (DeScioli & Kurzban, 2009; Massen & Koski, 2014; Schülke et al, 2010; Seyfarth & Cheney, 2012).…”

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“…In risky situations, when an individual has to choose with whom to cooperate, social bonds spare situational judgement and cognitive effort of assessing partner quality and honesty of signals, since they reduce uncertainty about the partner’s response (Cronin, 2012; Molesti & Majolo, 2016; Noë, 2006; Schino & Aureli, 2009). According to standard evolutionary models, partner choice mechanisms are key to initiate and maintain cooperative behaviours, and can lead to the formation of differentiated social relationships from weak ties to social bonds in animal groups (Campennì & Schino, 2014; Noë, 2006; Schino & Aureli, 2016).…”

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Personality homophily affects male social bonding in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

Ebenau

Borell

Penke

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23Animal social bonds are defined as stable, equitable and strong affiliative and cooperative 24 relationships similar to human friendships. Just as human friendships, social bonds are 25 thought to function as alliances that generate adaptive benefits via support in critical 26 situations. In humans, similarity in many sociodemographic, behavioural and intrapersonal 27 characteristics leads to trust and is predictive of friendships. Specifically, personality 28 homophily, that is the tendency of individuals to form social bonds with others who have a 29 similar personality, may increase predictability and facilitate trust and reciprocity among 30 partners with compatible behavioural tendencies. While evidence for social bonding in 31 nonhumans is accumulating, far less is known about its predictors. Here, personality 32 homophily effects on the formation and maintenance of social bonds are shown in twenty-four 33 wild male Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis), at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, 34 Thailand. Dyadic bond strength increased with increased similarity in the trait Connectedness 35 (i.e. frequent and diverse neighbours in 5m proximity and pronounced social tolerance, as 36 high rates of friendly approaches to and by others). To differentiate whether homophily 37 indeed predicted bond formation or whether bonded males' personalities became more similar 38 over time, we tested the stability of the connectedness traits in a subset of immigrating males 39 that had to form new bonds. Connectedness in these males remained stable suggesting that 40 males do not adapt their personality to their partner. Our results support the idea of a shared 41 evolutionary origin of homophily as a partner choice strategy in human and non-human 42 animals. The main selective advantage of personality similarity in animal social bonds may 43 result from a more reliable cooperation among individuals with similar cooperative 44 behavioural tendencies.45

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Personality homophily affects male social bonding in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

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Borell

Penke

et al. 2019

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“…In the theoretical literature on partner choice, relatively little attention has been given to these questions. First of all, a large proportion of models consider cooperation as an all-or-nothing decision and thus cannot study its quantitative level [4,5,25,37,39,40,48,53,62,89,94,108]. Second, some models consider cooperation as a quantitative trait but do not entail diminishing returns, and are thus ill-suited to study the social efficiency of cooperative interactions [51,74,88,92].…”

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Why cooperation is not running away

Geoffroy

Baumard

André

2018

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“…Partner choice and its resulting market dynamics may solve part of this quandary [21,28,55]. When people can form reputations and select partners, higher levels of cooperation are witnessed in the laboratory [76].…”

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Expectations of Fairness and Trust Co-Evolve in Environments of Partial Information

Rauwolf¹,

Bryson²

2017

Dyn Games Appl

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When playing one-shot economic games, individuals often blindly trust others, accepting partnerships without any information regarding the trustworthiness of their partner. Consequently, they risk deleterious pacts. Oddly, when individuals do have information about another, they reject partnerships that are not fair, despite the fact that such offers are profitable-individuals costly punish. Why would one reject profitable partnerships on the one hand, but risk unknown offers on the other? Significant research has gone into explaining the contexts where blind trust or costly punishment provides an evolutionary advantage; however, both behaviours are rarely considered in tandem. Here we demonstrate that both behaviours can simultaneously be revenue maximizing. Further, given the plausible condition of partially obscured information and partner choice, trust mediates the generation of costly punishment. This result is important because it demonstrates that the evolutionary viability of trust, fairness, and costly punishment may be linked. The adaptive nature of fairness expectations can best be explained in concert with trust.

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Partner choice promotes cooperation: The two faces of testing with agent-based models

Cited by 36 publications

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Personality homophily affects male social bonding in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

Personality homophily affects male social bonding in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)

Why cooperation is not running away

Expectations of Fairness and Trust Co-Evolve in Environments of Partial Information

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