A single 'weight-lifting' game covers all kinds of games.
Prisoner's Dilemma game
chicken game
game theory
stag hunt game
Journal
Royal Society open science
ISSN: 2054-5703
Titre abrégé: R Soc Open Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101647528
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2019
Nov 2019
Historique:
received:
13
09
2019
accepted:
23
10
2019
entrez:
13
12
2019
pubmed:
13
12
2019
medline:
13
12
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Game theory has been studied extensively to answer why cooperation is promoted in human and animal societies. All games are classified into five games: the Prisoner's Dilemma, chicken game (including hawk-dove game), stag hunt game and two trivial games of either all cooperation or all defect, which are studied separately. Here, we propose a new game that covers all five game categories: the weight-lifting game. The player choose either to (1) carry a weight (cooperate: pay a cost) or (2) pretend to carry it (defect: pay no cost). The probability of success in carrying the weight depends on the number of cooperators, and the players either gain the success reward or pay the failure penalty. All five game categories appear in this game depending on the success probabilities for the number of cooperators. We prove that this game is exactly equivalent to the combination of all five games in terms of a pay-off matrix. This game thus provides a unified framework for studying all five types of games.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31827873
doi: 10.1098/rsos.191602
pii: rsos191602
pmc: PMC6894607
doi:
Banques de données
figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4726646']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
191602Informations de copyright
© 2019 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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