On the spread of charitable behavior in a social network: a model based on game theory

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dc.contributor.authorRocha A.C.
dc.contributor.authorMonteiro L.H.A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-12T19:12:20Z
dc.date.available2024-03-12T19:12:20Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstract© 2023 the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press.Many people worldwide depend on charitable donations to survive. Consider a social network engaged in charitable activities. Let this network be composed of individuals with heterogeneous donation behaviors: there are individuals that are influenced by the neighborhood activity and individuals that act by themselves. In this article, a model formulated in terms of a spatial iterated game is proposed to investigate the time evolution of the number of donors in this social network. In the proposed model, the population spatial structure is represented by a three-dimensional torus and the social interactions are represented by a payoff matrix. Here, the payoffs are a measure of the feeling of personal satisfaction for making (or not) a charitable contribution. Numerical simulations are performed in order to find out how the population size, the payoff for simultaneous donations, the probability of spontaneous donation, and the proportions of the distinct charitable behaviors affect the number of donors. The simulations reveal that an increase in the proportion of impure altruistic behavior improves the engagement in charitable projects if the donations motivated by pure altruism occur with low probability. The practical implications of this study can be especially relevant in times of economic crisis, like the one we are experiencing.
dc.description.firstpage842
dc.description.issuenumber2
dc.description.lastpage854
dc.description.volume18
dc.identifier.doi10.3934/nhm.2023036
dc.identifier.issn1556-1801
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/34224
dc.relation.ispartofNetworks and Heterogeneous Media
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subject.otherlanguagealtruism
dc.subject.otherlanguagecharitable behavior
dc.subject.otherlanguagegame theory
dc.subject.otherlanguagepopulation dynamics
dc.subject.otherlanguagesocial network
dc.titleOn the spread of charitable behavior in a social network: a model based on game theory
dc.typeArtigo
local.scopus.citations1
local.scopus.eid2-s2.0-85152240057
local.scopus.subjectAltruism
local.scopus.subjectCharitable activities
local.scopus.subjectCharitable behavior
local.scopus.subjectIterated games
local.scopus.subjectModel-based OPC
local.scopus.subjectNeighbourhood
local.scopus.subjectSocial interactions
local.scopus.subjectSocial network
local.scopus.subjectSpatial structure
local.scopus.subjectTime evolutions
local.scopus.updated2024-12-01
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