scholarly journals Adherence to public institutions that foster cooperation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunas L. Radzvilavicius ◽  
Taylor A. Kessinger ◽  
Joshua B. Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
Moral Assessment ◽  
Public Monitoring

AbstractHumans typically consider altruism a moral good and condition their social behavior on the moral reputations of others. Indirect reciprocity explains how social norms and reputations support cooperation: individuals cooperate with others who are considered good. Indirect reciprocity works when an institution monitors and publicly broadcasts moral reputations. Here we develop a theory of adherence to public monitoring in societies where individuals are, at first, independently responsible for evaluating the reputations of their peers. Using a mathematical model, we show that adherence to an institution of moral assessment can evolve and promote cooperation under four different social norms, including norms that previous studies found to perform poorly. We determine how an institution’s size and its degree of tolerance towards anti-social behavior affect the rate of cooperation. Public monitoring serves to eliminate disagreements about reputations, which increases cooperation and payoffs, so that adherence evolves by social contagion and remains robust against displacement.

scholarly journals How to design institutions that foster cooperation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunas Radzvilavicius ◽  
Taylor Kessinger ◽  
Joshua B. Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Monitoring

Humans typically consider altruism a moral good and condition their social behavior on the moral reputations of others. Indirect reciprocity explains how social norms and moral reputations can collectively support cooperation: members of the society cooperate who others who are considered good. But the theory of indirect reciprocity requires institutions that monitor and publicly broadcast moral reputations. Here we study evolution of adherence to public monitoring in societies where individuals are, at first, independently responsible for evaluating the moral reputations of their peers. We show that adherence to a public institution of moral assessment can evolve and promote cooperation under all simple social norms, depending upon the institution's tolerance to occasional antisocial behavior. We specify how an institution's size and its degree of tolerance towards antisocial behavior can be designed to dramatically increase cooperation rates, even for social norms that previous studies have found to perform poorly. Public monitoring serves to eliminate disagreements about reputations in the population, which in turn increases cooperation and individual payoffs, so that adherence to the public institution can evolve by social contagion. Adherence is then robust to invasion, and it tends to crowd out internal mechanisms that could alternatively support cooperation. These results help explain why societies tend to elect centralized institutions to provide top-down moral governance of their individual behavior.

scholarly journals Indirect reciprocity can overcome free-rider problems on costly moral assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 20160341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Sasaki ◽  
Isamu Okada ◽  
Yutaka Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Free Rider ◽  
Evolution Of Cooperation ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
Accurate Evaluation ◽  
Assessment Systems ◽  
Moral Assessment

Indirect reciprocity is one of the major mechanisms of the evolution of cooperation. Because constant monitoring and accurate evaluation in moral assessments tend to be costly, indirect reciprocity can be exploited by cost evaders. A recent study crucially showed that a cooperative state achieved by indirect reciprocators is easily destabilized by cost evaders in the case with no supportive mechanism. Here, we present a simple and widely applicable solution that considers pre-assessment of cost evaders. In the pre-assessment, those who fail to pay for costly assessment systems are assigned a nasty image that leads to them being rejected by discriminators. We demonstrate that considering the pre-assessment can crucially stabilize reciprocal cooperation for a broad range of indirect reciprocity models. In particular for the most leading social norms, we analyse the conditions under which a prosocial state becomes locally stable.

scholarly journals Evolution of empathetic moral evaluation

eLife ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunas L Radzvilavicius ◽  
Alexander J Stewart ◽  
Joshua B Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Good Reputation ◽  
Moral Assessment

Social norms can promote cooperation by assigning reputations to individuals based on their past actions. A good reputation indicates that an individual is likely to reciprocate. A large body of research has established norms of moral assessment that promote cooperation, assuming reputations are objective. But without a centralized institution to provide objective evaluation, opinions about an individual’s reputation may differ across a population. In this setting we study the role of empathy–the capacity to form moral evaluations from another person’s perspective. We show that empathy tends to foster cooperation by reducing the rate of unjustified defection. The norms of moral evaluation previously considered most socially beneficial depend on high levels of empathy, whereas different norms maximize social welfare in populations incapable of empathy. Finally, we show that empathy itself can evolve through social contagion. We conclude that a capacity for empathy is a key component for sustaining cooperation in societies.

MODERN CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S COGNITIVE MAP

2021 ◽  
pp. 282-303
Author(s):  
А.В. БУДАНОВ
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Cognitive Map ◽  
Psychological View

В статье на основе публикаций в масс-медиа и Интернет-блогах анализируется трансформация когнитивной карты личности в современных условиях. Показаны основные направления и риски деструктивного воздействия на человека информационного поля. По мере становления новой цивилизации XXI века информационное поле ускоряет процесс придания современному варварству особого метафизического смысла, нарушающего допустимые нормы и пределы, свойственные любой цивилизации. Выделены триггеры, стратегии и технологии, запускающие у человека процессы кардинального изменения его мироощущения и миропонимания. Социально-психологический ракурс исследования позволяет по-новому взглянуть на природу и сущность современного варварства. Показаны возможные формы прогнозирования социального поведения человека в контексте появления и преодоления агрессивных злонамеренных действий. The article is devoted to the analysis based on mass media publications and internet blogs of an individual's cognitive map transformation in modern realities. General directions and risks of information field destructive impacts on an individual are shown. As new civilization of XXI century establishes, information field gives a boost to a process of giving special metaphysical meaning to modern barbarity, which destructs permissible social norms common to an any civilization. Triggers, strategies, and technologies, starting fundamental changing processes in world perception and mentality of an individual are summarized. Social and psychological view of the article lets take a fresh look at an essence and nature of modern barbarity. Possible forms of conceptual foresight of individual's social behavior are shown in context of materialization and overriding of aggressive and ill-destined moves.

scholarly journals Between Sicilia and Lombardy: Relation between trust, civil norms and social participation among citizens of Serbia

Sociologija ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Stanojevic ◽  
Dragana Stokanic
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

The one of the key precondition of social and political participation of citizens is their interpersonal and institutional trust. In order to avoid the increase of individual atomization and/or excessively rise of informal support networks, institutional organizations are crucial. For that reason, it is necessary to exist certain level of trust in institutional arrangements. This paper will be focused on widely used concept of social capital for analysis of interaction between trust, social norms and participation. Concerning participation, in this paper the difference between ?generalized? trust in public institutions and ?specific?, personalized trust in people is explained. This situation of low trust in people and institutions which are interlinked and create general atmosphere of distrust is present in post-socialist societies, such as Serbia. Firstly, the aim of this paper is to show level of participation in different organizations and the trust of citizens of Serbia in political institutions, as well as trust in people in general. Additionally, the acceptance of civil norms will be presented. Secondly, it will be analyzed in what extant formal organizations contribute to the trust creation and the acceptance of social norms as forms of universal values which are necessary for basic social consensus and solidarity. Also, it will be presented the relation between trust in certain institutions and organizations and the acceptance of civil norms. In order to achieve these goals, it will be used quantitative analysis and databases World Values Survey, fifth wave conducted from 2005 to 2007.

Impaired Perception of Unintentional Transgression of Social Norms after Prefrontal Cortex Damage: Relationship to Decision Making, Emotion Recognition, and Executive Functions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riadh Ouerchefani ◽  
Naoufel Ouerchefani ◽  
Mohamed Riadh Ben Rejeb ◽  
Didier Le Gall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Executive Functions ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Iowa Gambling Task ◽  
Gambling Task ◽  
Basic Emotions

Abstract Objective Patients with prefrontal cortex damage often transgress social rules and show lower accuracy in identifying and explaining inappropriate social behavior. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the ability to perceive other unintentional transgressions of social norms and both decision making and emotion recognition as these abilities are critical for appropriate social behavior. Method We examined a group of patients with focal prefrontal cortex damage (N = 28) and a group of matched control participants (N = 28) for their abilities to detect unintentional transgression of social norms using the “Faux-Pas” task of theory of mind, to make advantageous decisions on the Iowa gambling task, and to recognize basic emotions on the Ekman facial affect test. Results The group of patients with frontal lobe damage was impaired in all of these tasks compared with control participants. Moreover, all the “Faux-Pas”, Iowa gambling, and emotion recognition tasks were significantly associated and predicted by executive measures of inhibition, flexibility, or planning. However, only measures from the Iowa gambling task were associated and predicted performance on the “Faux-Pas” task. These tasks were not associated with performance in recognition of basic emotions. These findings suggest that theory of mind, executive functions, and decision-making abilities act in an interdependent way for appropriate social behavior. However, theory of mind and emotion recognition seem to have distinct but additive effects upon social behavior. Results from VLSM analysis also corroborate these data by showing a partially overlapped prefrontal circuitry underlying these cognitive domains.

scholarly journals COEXISTENCE OF SOCIAL NORMS BASED ON IN- AND OUT-GROUP INTERACTIONS

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 271-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS FENT ◽  
PATRICK GROEBER ◽  
FRANK SCHWEITZER
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Continuous State Space ◽  
Continuous State ◽  
Microscopic Interactions ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Repulsive Forces

The question how social norms can emerge from microscopic interactions between individuals is a key problem in social sciences to explain collective behavior. In this paper, we propose an agent-based model to show that randomly distributed social behavior by way of local interaction converges to a state with a multimodal distribution of behavior. This can be interpreted as a coexistence of different social norms, a result that goes beyond previous investigations. The model is discrete in time and space, behavior is characterized in a continuous state space. The adaptation of social behavior by each agent is based on attractive and repulsive forces caused by friendly and adversary relations among agents. The model is analyzed both analytically and by means of spatio-temporal computer simulations. It provides conditions under which we find convergence towards a single norm, coexistence of two opposing norms, and coexistence of a multitude of norms. For the latter case, we also show the evolution of the spatio-temporal distribution of behavior.

scholarly journals An evolutionary resolution of manipulation conflict

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio González-Forero
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Delayed Dispersal ◽  
Fitness Effects ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Maternal Manipulation ◽  
Selection For ◽  
The Cost

Individuals can manipulate the behavior of social partners. However, manipulation may conflict with the fitness interests of the manipulated individuals. Manipulated individuals can then be favored to resist manipulation, possibly reducing or eliminating the manipulated behavior in the long run. I use a mathematical model to show that conflicts where manipulation and resistance coevolve can disappear as a result of the coevolutionary process. I find that while manipulated individuals are selected to resist, they can simultaneously be favored to express the manipulated behavior at higher efficiency (i.e., providing increasing fitness effects to recipients of the manipulated behavior). Efficiency can increase to a point at which selection for resistance disappears. This process yields an efficient social behavior that is induced by social partners, and over which the inducing and induced individuals are no longer in conflict. A necessary factor is costly inefficiency. I develop the model to address the evolution of advanced eusociality via maternal manipulation (AEMM). The model predicts AEMM to be particularly likely in taxa with ancestrally imperfect resistance to maternal manipulation. Costly inefficiency occurs if the cost of delayed dispersal is larger than the benefit of exploiting the maternal patch. I discuss broader implications of the process. Now published in: Evolution, doi:10.1111/evo.12420

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