Balancing precedent and mutual benefit in human coordination

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<p>Human societies rely on shared conventions that allow people to coordinate efficiently, from the conversational etiquette and the “rules of the road” to workplace roles and the handshake economy. To be effective, the conventions must be reliable, and yet also adaptable: when circumstances change, people must decide whether to follow established precedents or shift to new ways of coordinating. Most cognitive and...

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• Biological Evolution
• Cooperative Behavior
• Game Theory
• Models, Biological
• Mutation
• Mutation Rate
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Population Density

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Literature Corpus work

f21cb278-d8d9-507f-bd15-a997e654c1ab

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/t5pn2_v1