Social Dynamics

Introduction Part I: Correlation and the Social Contract Introduction to part I 1: Evolution and the Social Contract Part II: Importance of Dynamics Introduction to part II 2: Trust, Risk, and the Social Contract 3: with Jason Alexander: Bargaining with Neighbors: Is Justice Contagious? 4: Stability and Explanatory Significance of Some Simple Evolutionary Models 5: Dynamics of Conformist Bias 6: Chaos and the Explanatory Significance of Equilibrium: Strange Attractors in Evolutionary Game Dynamics 7: with Jorge Pacheco, Francisco Santos and Max Souza: Evolutionary Dynamics of Collective Action in N-person Stag Hunt Dilemmas 8: with Peter Vanderschraaf: Learning to Take Turns 9: with Kevin Zollman: Evolutionary Considerations in the Framing of Social Norms Part III: Dynamic Networks Introduction to part III 10: with Robin Pemantle: Learning to Network 11: with Robin Pemantle: A Dynamic Model of Social Network Formation 12: with Robin Pemantle: Network Formation by Reinforcement Learning: The Long and the Medium Run 13: with Robin Pemantle: Time to Absorption in Discounted Reinforcement Models Part IV: Dynamics of Signals Introduction to part IV 14: with Raffaele Argiento, Robin Pemantle and Stanislav Volkov: Learning to Signal: Analysis of a Micro-Level Reinforcement Model 15: with Jason McKenzie Alexander and Sandy L. Zabell: Inventing New Signals 16: Signals, Evolution and the Explanatory Power of Transient Information 17: with Francesco Santos and Jorge Pacheco: Co-Evolution of Pre-Play Signaling and Cooperation 18: Evolution of Signaling Systems with Multiple Senders and Receivers Index