Limited Cognitive Abilities and Dominance Hierarchy
Hanyuan Huang, Jiabin Wu

TL;DR
This paper introduces a model where limited cognitive abilities influence the emergence of dominance hierarchies, demonstrating how different social structures naturally arise as optimal strategies in a Hawk-Dove game.
Contribution
It presents a novel model linking cognitive limitations to the formation of hierarchical social structures, explaining their emergence as fitness-maximizing strategies.
Findings
Linear hierarchies emerge at certain cognitive levels
Despotism structures arise under different cognitive constraints
Hierarchies are shown to be fitness-optimal in the model
Abstract
We propose a novel model to explain the mechanisms underlying dominance hierarchical structures. Guided by a predetermined social convention, agents with limited cognitive abilities optimize their strategies in a Hawk-Dove game. We find that several commonly observed hierarchical structures in nature such as linear hierarchy and despotism, emerge as the total fitness-maximizing social structures given different levels of cognitive abilities.
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Taxonomy
TopicsEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
