Coordinating cooperation in stag-hunt game: Emergence of evolutionarily stable procedural rationality

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Autori principali: Bairagya, Joy Das, Chakraborty, Sagar
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author Bairagya, Joy Das
Chakraborty, Sagar
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Chakraborty, Sagar
contents Humans are bounded rational at best and this, we argue, has worked in their favour in the hunter-gatherer society where emergence of a coordinated action, leading to cooperation, is otherwise the standard stag-hunt dilemma (when individuals are rational). In line with the fact the humans strive for developing self-reputation by having less propensity to cheat than to be cheated, we observe that the payoff structure of the stag-hunt game appropriately modifies to that of coordination-II game. Subsequently, within the paradigm of evolutionary game theory, we establish that a population -- consisting of procedural rational players (a type of bounded rationality) -- is unequivocally evolutionarily stable against emergence of more rational strategies in coordination-II game. The cooperation is, thus, shown to have been established by evolutionary forces picking less rational individuals.
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spellingShingle Coordinating cooperation in stag-hunt game: Emergence of evolutionarily stable procedural rationality
Bairagya, Joy Das
Chakraborty, Sagar
Physics and Society
Theoretical Economics
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
Humans are bounded rational at best and this, we argue, has worked in their favour in the hunter-gatherer society where emergence of a coordinated action, leading to cooperation, is otherwise the standard stag-hunt dilemma (when individuals are rational). In line with the fact the humans strive for developing self-reputation by having less propensity to cheat than to be cheated, we observe that the payoff structure of the stag-hunt game appropriately modifies to that of coordination-II game. Subsequently, within the paradigm of evolutionary game theory, we establish that a population -- consisting of procedural rational players (a type of bounded rationality) -- is unequivocally evolutionarily stable against emergence of more rational strategies in coordination-II game. The cooperation is, thus, shown to have been established by evolutionary forces picking less rational individuals.
title Coordinating cooperation in stag-hunt game: Emergence of evolutionarily stable procedural rationality
topic Physics and Society
Theoretical Economics
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08301