The effect of wealth-based anti-expectation behaviors on public cooperation

Entropy-norm space for geometric selection of strict Nash equilibria in n-person games

“…We are proposing a more pragmatic selection criterion motivated by the empirical evidence [9][10][11][12][13][14] that individuals within a group, besides maximize their utilities, may also have fairness motivations, which can be manifested as an aversion to inequality, and so contributing to the search of a group's agreement. In fact, cooperation between individuals has been an important factor for the maintenance of human beings' lives and ongoing research efforts are been carried out in order to understand the emergence of cooperative group decisions [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Nevertheless, in order to distinguish the type of frameworks available for games modelling, here we are interested in group decisions having some kind of coordination, which does not lay necessarily in the approach of cooperative games, since the term co-operate means that two or more individuals are operating as a unique entity, which is not the case of the problem addressed here, but illustrates quite well the same idea, of individuals autonomously orienting their behaviour toward a mutual benefit solution.…”