Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust?

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<p>Humans sometimes cooperate to mutual advantage, and sometimes exploit one another. In industrialised societies, the prevalence of exploitation is related to the distribution of economic resources: more unequal societies tend to have higher crime, as well as lower social trust. We created a model of cooperation and exploitation to explore why this should be. Distinctively, our model features a desperation thresh...

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• Cooperative Behavior
• Game Theory
• Models, Biological
• Mutation
• Population Dynamics

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3317defb-39ca-5432-9dc1-a05644d60a41

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/p2aed