2018
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2018.00107
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Grand Challenges in Social Physics: In Pursuit of Moral Behavior

Abstract: Methods of statistical physics have proven valuable for studying the evolution of cooperation in social dilemma games. However, recent empirical research shows that cooperative behavior in social dilemmas is only one kind of a more general class of behavior, namely moral behavior, which includes reciprocity, respecting others' property, honesty, equity, efficiency, as well as many others. Inspired by these experimental works, we here open up the path towards studying other forms of moral behavior with methods … Show more

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“…The interest of the physics community was further spurred on by the discovery that scale-free networks provide a unifying framework for the evolution of cooperation [9], and over the past almost two decades, methods of physics have been applied to many contemporary societal challenges [10]. Examples include traffic [11], crime [12], epidemic processes [13], vaccination [14,15], cooperation [16], climate inaction [17], as well as antibiotic overuse [18] and moral behavior [19], to name just some examples.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The interest of the physics community was further spurred on by the discovery that scale-free networks provide a unifying framework for the evolution of cooperation [9], and over the past almost two decades, methods of physics have been applied to many contemporary societal challenges [10]. Examples include traffic [11], crime [12], epidemic processes [13], vaccination [14,15], cooperation [16], climate inaction [17], as well as antibiotic overuse [18] and moral behavior [19], to name just some examples.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Social networking, banking and healthcare systems are examples of systems that handle such private information [9], and they often overlook privacy due to indirect use of private information. There are other information systems that use massive amounts of sensitive private information (also called big data) for modeling and prediction of human-related phenomena such as crimes [19], epidemics [21] and grand challenges in social physics [8]. Hence, privacy preservation (a.k.a.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cooperators are therefore fundamentally challenged by the most basic principles of Darwinian evolution, i.e., why should anyone act selflessly if only the fittest succeed? This puzzle has mobilized an unprecedented spectrum of researchers across disciplines to seek out mechanisms that sustain and/or promote cooperation [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%