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We investigate a heterogeneous environment of strategic choice in the modelled repeated public goods game. Our objective is to assess the emergence and resilience of cooperation in respect to the coexistence of competing strategies while engaging in cooperation influencing interactions and possible change of strategic behaviour. The chosen strategies follow a simple design, mimicking human behaviour choices while being of strongly reduced complexity. Engaging in different scenarios, we show strategy type distributions where cooperation is stable while for other distributions, specific decay patterns emerge that lead to an overtake of defective strategies. Moreover, we use local effect measurements to examine an individual strategy impact on its environment and how positively or negatively a strategy type behaves. In the light of social contagion, this holds information on how positive or negative a strategy type is for the collective cooperative behaviour.
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Kapeller, M.L., Jäger, G., Füllsack, M. (2020). Effects of Heterogeneous Strategy Composition on Cooperation in the Repeated Public Goods Game. In: Verhagen, H., Borit, M., Bravo, G., Wijermans, N. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_23
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