Diversity of rationality affects the evolution of cooperation.
By modifying the Fermi updating rule, we present the diversity of individual rationality to the evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game, and our results shows that this diversity heavily influences the evolution of cooperation. Cluster-forming mechanism of cooperators can either be highly enhanced or severely deteriorated by different distributions of rationality. Slight change in the rationality distribution may transfer the whole system from the global absorbing state of cooperators to that of defectors. Based on mean-field argument, quantitative analysis of the stability of cooperative clusters reveals the critical role played by agents with moderate degree values in the evolution of the whole system. The inspiration from our work may provide us a deeper comprehension toward some social phenomena.
Chen
Yu-Zhong
YZ
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
Huang
Zi-Gang
ZG
Wang
Sheng-Jun
SJ
Zhang
Yan
Y
Wang
Ying-Hai
YH