Onymity promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments

Zhen Wang; Marko Jusup; Rui-Wu Wang; Lei Shi; Yoh Iwasa; Yamir Moreno; Jürgen Kurths

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601444

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Onymity promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments

Zhen Wang¹,²,
View ORCID ProfileMarko Jusup³,*,
Rui-Wu Wang⁴,⁵,*,
Lei Shi⁶,*,
View ORCID ProfileYoh Iwasa⁷,
Yamir Moreno⁸,⁹,¹⁰ and
Jürgen Kurths¹¹,¹²,¹³

¹Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
²Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan.
³Research Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
⁴Center for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.
⁵State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
⁶School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China.
⁷Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
⁸Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
⁹Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
¹⁰Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), ISI Foundation, 10126 Turin, Italy.
¹¹Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
¹²Department of Physics, Humboldt University, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
¹³Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: lshi{at}ynufe.edu.cn (L.S.); wangrw{at}mail.kiz.ac.cn (R.-W.W.); mjusup{at}gmail.com (M.J.)

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Science Advances 29 Mar 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 3, e1601444
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601444

Zhen Wang

1Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.

2Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan.

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Marko Jusup

3Research Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.

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For correspondence: lshi@ynufe.edu.cn wangrw@mail.kiz.ac.cn mjusup@gmail.com

Rui-Wu Wang

4Center for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China.

5State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.

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For correspondence: lshi@ynufe.edu.cn wangrw@mail.kiz.ac.cn mjusup@gmail.com

Lei Shi

6School of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China.

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For correspondence: lshi@ynufe.edu.cn wangrw@mail.kiz.ac.cn mjusup@gmail.com

Yoh Iwasa

7Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.

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Yamir Moreno

8Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.

9Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.

10Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), ISI Foundation, 10126 Turin, Italy.

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Jürgen Kurths

11Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), 14473 Potsdam, Germany.

12Department of Physics, Humboldt University, 12489 Berlin, Germany.

13Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K.

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