title: The evolution of reputation-based partner-switching behaviors with a cost.
abstract: Humans constantly adjust their social relationships and choose new partners of good reputations, thereby promoting the evolution of cooperation. Individuals have to pay a cost to build a reputation, obtain others' information and then make partnership adjustments, yet the conditions under which such costly behaviors are able to evolve remain to be explored. In this model, I assume that individuals have to pay a cost to adjust their partnerships. Furthermore, whether an individual can adjust his partnership based on reputation is determined by his strategic preference, which is updated via coevolution. Using the metaphor of a public goods game where the collective benefit is shared among all members of a group, the coupling dynamics of cooperation and partnership adjustment were numerically simulated. Partner-switching behavior cannot evolve in a public goods game with a low amplification factor. However, such an effect can be exempted by raising the productivity of public goods or the frequency of partnership adjustment. Moreover, costly partner-switching behavior is remarkably promoted by the condition that the mechanism of reputation evaluation considers its prosociality. A mechanism of reputation evaluation that praises both cooperative and partner-switching behaviors allows them to coevolve.
authors.affiliation: School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China.
authors.forename: Yixiao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
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