The Concomitance of Prosociality and Social Networking Agency
Danyang Jia,
Ivan Romic,
Lei Shi,
Qi Su,
Chen Liu,
Jinzhuo Liu,
Petter Holme,
Xuelong Li and
Zhen Wang
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Danyang Jia: School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University and School of Artificial Intelligence, OPtics and ElectroNics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA
Lei Shi: School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, CHINA
Qi Su: Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, and Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Control and Management, CHINA
Chen Liu: School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA
Jinzhuo Liu: School of Software, Yunnan University, CHINA
Petter Holme: Center for Computational Social Science, Kobe University, JANPAN and Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, FINLAND
Xuelong Li: School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University and School of Artificial Intelligence, OPtics and ElectroNics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA
Zhen Wang: School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University and School of Artificial Intelligence, OPtics and ElectroNics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, CHINA
No DP2023-11, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University
Abstract:
The awareness of individuals regarding their social network surroundings and their capacity to use social connections to their advantage are well-established human characteristics. Economic games, incorporated with network science, are frequently used to examine social behaviour. Traditionally, such game models and experiments artificially limit players' abilities to take varied actions toward distinct social neighbours (i.e., to operate their social networks). We designed an experimental paradigm that alters the degree of social network agency to interact with individual neighbours, and applied it to the prisoner's dilemma (N = 735), trust game (N = 735), and ultimatum game (N = 735) to investigate cooperation, trust, and fairness. The freedom to interact led to more prosocial behaviour across all three economic games and resulted in higher wealth and lower inequality compared to controls without such freedom. These findings suggest that human behaviour is more prosocial than current science indicates.
Keywords: Behavioural science; Networks; Cooperation; Prosociality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2023-03, Revised 2024-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-gth, nep-net and nep-soc
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