2009/04/01 by M. Rybak, Marcin Rybak, A. Dydejczyk +5
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #FOS: Physical sciences #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #physics.comp-ph #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.0081
9 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2009/04/01 · openalex publication_date 2009/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The norm game (NG) introduced by Robert Axelrod is a convenient frame to disccuss the time evolution of the level of preserving norms in social systems. Recently NG was formulated in terms of a social contagion on a model social network with two stable states: defectors or punishers. Here we calculate the critical line between these states on the plane of parameters, which measure the severities of punishing and of being punished. We show also that the position of this line is more susceptible to the amount of agents who always punish and never defect, than to those who always defect and never punish. The process is discussed in the context of the statistical data on crimes in some European countries close to Wrocław - the place of this Conference - around 1990.