Cooperation and self-regarding: How humans are in uenced by others action

Abstract

The conflict between individual interests and good common is present in many different situations on living systems. How cooperation emerges it is very important to understand how behaves a lot of systems, as a city, a society or even an ecosystem. In this work we had purposed to have a look on how humans face this kind of situations. By analyzing the data of a social experiment, where 541 individuals played a social dilemma, we found that the actions of the people are influenced by the actions of their rivals, and this leads to a specifc behaviour of the population. We expect that this work is going to help us to understand how cooperation emerges between individuals, and have a better approach to understanding the rules that obey the human societies