Last year, University of Pennsylvania researchers Alexander J. Stewart and Joshua B. Plotkin published a mathematical explanation for why cooperation and generosity have evolved in nature. Using the classical game theory ...
Evolution
Nov 24, 2014
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Reputation is an asset to cherish, whether corporate, institutional or personal. In the age of social media, however, reputation is more fragile than ever. News of a simple mistake or misjudged action can spread rapidly via ...
Economics & Business
Nov 13, 2014
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How do we as individuals prompt our fellow humans to behave socially? This is one of the central questions relating to social dilemmas in game theory. Previous studies assumed that it is almost impossible to control cooperation ...
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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Debi Taylor has worked in everything from construction development to IT, and is well and truly socialised into male-dominated workplaces. So when she found herself the only female in her game development classes as a mature ...
Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A small team of researchers with members from facilities in the U.K., Australia, and Saudi Arabia has found that when it comes to crowdsourcing contests, malicious behavior is the norm. In their paper published ...
Why does the word "dog" have meaning? If you say "dog" to a friend, why does your friend understand you?
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2014
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Cancer's no game, but researchers at Johns Hopkins are borrowing ideas from evolutionary game theory to learn how cells cooperate within a tumor to gather energy. Their experiments, they say, could identify the ideal time ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 15, 2014
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If you're trying to outwit the competition, it might be better to have been born a chimpanzee, according to a study by researchers at Caltech, which found that chimps at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute consistently ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers at Zhejiang University in China has found a way for players to improve their odds of winning when playing the hand game rock-paper-scissors. In their paper they've uploaded to the preprint ...
Researchers in Italy, writing in the International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management have demonstrated that net neutrality benefits content creator and consumers without compromising provider innovation nor profits.
Internet
Apr 17, 2014
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