Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Spite is contagious in dynamic networks

  • Zachary Fulker,
  • Patrick Forber,
  • Rory Smead,
  • Christoph Riedl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20436-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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As spiteful behaviors harm both the actor and the target, it is challenging to understand how these behaviors could be adaptive. Here Fulker et al. show that spite can be favored by feedbacks with network structure that create correlated and anti-correlated behavioral interactions simultaneously.