"Evolutionary Dynamics of Prosocial Behaviours under Incentives"Durbac, CalinaThroughout all of history, humanity has consistently embraced prosocial behaviours, ranging from food sharing and collective hunting to climate change mitigation and technology development. Due to their benefits, not only have people encouraged prosocial behaviours via decentralised incentives such as peer punishment and social exclusion, they have also done so via centralised incentives embodied by authoritative entities such as the United Nations and European Union. From a mathematical standpoint, these scenarios find their most prevalent representation within the realm of evolutionary game theory—a powerful tool employed to model and analyse complex systems characterised by frequency-dependent selection. Research in the above area has always been flourishing, but it has recently gained momentum due to emerging societal challenges, such as climate change, healthcare, and advanced technology regulation. This mini-symposium aims to bring together researchers working on the evolutionary dynamics of prosocial behaviours (such as cooperation, coordination, fairness, and trust) with a particular interest in how these are affected by the use of incentives such as social exclusion, reward, punishment, and others. Moreover, this mini-symposium provides an ideal opportunity for researchers to interact and create collaboration networks. comments: The following leading scientists, including both established and early-career researchers as well as two female scientists, have accepted to deliver a talk within our proposed mini-symposium. Their talks will discuss cutting-edge developments in the fields of evolutionary game theory and their applications in economics, biology, computer science, and social sciences. |
« back