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Imitation of success leads to cost of living mediated fairness in the Ultimatum Game

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  • Chen, Yunong
  • Belmonte, Andrew
  • Griffin, Christopher

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In this paper, we analyze a social imitation model that incorporates internal energy caches (e.g., food/money savings), cost of living, death, and reproduction into the Ultimatum Game. We show that when imitation (and death) occurs, a natural correlation between selfishness and cost of living emerges. However, in all societies that do not collapse, non-Nash sharing strategies emerge as the de facto result of imitation. We explain these results by constructing a mean-field approximation of the internal energy cache informed by time-varying distributions extracted from experimental data.

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  • Chen, Yunong & Belmonte, Andrew & Griffin, Christopher, 2021. "Imitation of success leads to cost of living mediated fairness in the Ultimatum Game," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 583(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:583:y:2021:i:c:s0378437121006014
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.126328
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