Geo Lorenzo R. Peig, Marissa P. Liponhay
Cooperation among humans is necessary to accomplish tasks that are difficult to do alone. This study explores one of its negative effects, commonly known as corruption, by adopting a die-rolling game that has been previously reported to capture the emergence of corrupt tendencies of players. Here, all-male and all-female pairs play 20 rounds of the game where they gain points if they report the same number, referred to as a double. The total points accumulated by a pair earn them a reward according to a set matrix. Regardless of sex, the players reported a significantly higher number of doubles than expected assuming complete honesty. An agent-based model is created following the rules of the game and is modified to explore the effects of the ratio of honest players when players have a losing tolerance. We find that every time a player gains a chance to cheat after losing one round, the number of reported doubles is inflated. An initially honest population becomes a cheating population such that in the presence of losing tolerance, a player can never be completely honest in the entire duration of the game. Finally, the differences between the reported die-values provide an insight that the behavior of the first player may motivate the corrupt behavior of the second player in a pair. © 2020 Author(s).
Physics Department University of San Carlos, Talamban, Cebu City, Cebu, 6000, Philippines
