The paper explores the influence of the type of relations among players on cooperation in the Prisoner’s dilemma game. The relations between players are operationalized according to Fiske’s relational models theory (Fiske, 1991): communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing. This is achieved by using various ways of distributing the total payoff gained by a dyad of...

The resource-based cities in Heilongjiang Province occupied a very important position. These cities and regions mostly faced with relative decline dilemma due to natural resources plunged. These directly affect the development of resources city. Therefore, industry transformation of resources city is realizing the sustainable development of regional economy.

How much help helps in discovery learning? This question is one instance of the assistance dilemma, an important issue in the learning sciences and educational technology research. To explore this question, we conducted a study involving 87 college students solving problems in a virtual chemistry laboratory (VLab), testing three points along an assistance continuum: (1) a minimal assistance, in...

The structure of interaction plays an important role in the outcome of evolutionary games. This study investigates the evolution of stochastic strategies of the prisoner’s dilemma played on structures ranging from lattices to small world networks. Strategies and payoffs are analyzed as a function of the network characteristics of the node they are playing on. Nodes with lattice-like neighborhoo...

In this paper, we investigate the evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma game in a structured population with two communities. The number of interconnections represents the interaction strength between the two communities. We address the question of how the interaction between two communities influences cooperation by studying five situations with different game dynamics and different community struct...

As the workforce becomes increasingly diverse, motivating individuals from different backgrounds to work together effectively is a major challenge facing organizations. In an experiment conducted at a large public university in the United States, we manipulate the salience of participants’ multidimensional natural identities and investigate the effects of identity on coordination and cooperatio...