TY - JOUR
T1 - The construction of peer punishment preference
T2 - how central power shapes prosocial and antisocial punishment behaviors
AU - Qian, Jun
AU - Zhang, Tongda
AU - Zhang, Yingfeng
AU - Chai, Yueting
AU - Sun, Xiao
AU - Wang, Zhen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/4/1
Y1 - 2023/4/1
N2 - Peer punishment is a crucial determinant in the formation of cooperation between individuals. Previous studies show that prosocial and antisocial punishment behaviors coexist in societies as the two sides of peer punishment. Surprisingly, people show saliently different antisocial punishment behaviors across regions, while prosocial punishment behaviors remain consistent. This raises a crucial question: why do prosocial and antisocial punishments exhibit completely different characteristics across regions? We answer this question by presenting a two-stage evolutionary model of people's peer punishment preference. We show that different central powers lead to discrepancies between people's antisocial and prosocial punishment behaviors. Moreover, we find that central power determines evolutionary outcomes by influencing the proportion between three basic individual types of a population. Our model provides a possible explanation for cross-regional variations in antisocial punishment behavior and a new interpretation of social norms. More generally, it sheds light on a potential theory to unify the evolution of people's coexisting prosocial and antisocial interactions.
AB - Peer punishment is a crucial determinant in the formation of cooperation between individuals. Previous studies show that prosocial and antisocial punishment behaviors coexist in societies as the two sides of peer punishment. Surprisingly, people show saliently different antisocial punishment behaviors across regions, while prosocial punishment behaviors remain consistent. This raises a crucial question: why do prosocial and antisocial punishments exhibit completely different characteristics across regions? We answer this question by presenting a two-stage evolutionary model of people's peer punishment preference. We show that different central powers lead to discrepancies between people's antisocial and prosocial punishment behaviors. Moreover, we find that central power determines evolutionary outcomes by influencing the proportion between three basic individual types of a population. Our model provides a possible explanation for cross-regional variations in antisocial punishment behavior and a new interpretation of social norms. More generally, it sheds light on a potential theory to unify the evolution of people's coexisting prosocial and antisocial interactions.
KW - antisocial punishment
KW - central power
KW - evolutionary dynamics
KW - prosocial punishment
KW - social norm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143502416&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.amc.2022.127723
DO - 10.1016/j.amc.2022.127723
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85143502416
SN - 0096-3003
VL - 442
JO - Applied Mathematics and Computation
JF - Applied Mathematics and Computation
M1 - 127723
ER -