Congratulations to SCOOP alumnus Carlos A. de Matos Fernandes on his new article, co-written with SCOOP colleague Andreas Flache, ‘Injecting complexity in simulation models: Do selection and social influence jointly promote cooperation?’ published in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (open access).
In this paper, Carlos used a simulation model based on data from university students, who were asked to choose other students to work with based on how cooperative they perceived each other to be.
The authors found that cooperation tends to be most successful when 1) individuals choose to interact with those they think are cooperative; and 2) cooperation thrives in situations where there is strong social influence. This means that people tend to copy the cooperative behaviour of people around them.
You can read Carlos’ article here.
