The Co-evolution Of Social Status And Fairness In Multi-person Cooperation

The sense of status and fairness is common in cooperation.Previous studies have found that there are great differences in the sense of fairness of individuals with different status in cooperation.For example,individuals with high status tend to get more equity with less investment,while individuals with low status tend to get more fairness with less investment.However,previous studies only found that individuals of different status have different sense of fairness from the perspective of recency,which cannot explain why individuals of different status have different sense of fairness.From the perspective of evolutionary psychology,this study hypothesizes that due to the influence of prestige factors brought by status,the cooperation opportunities of high and low status individuals are very different,the low status individuals can choose few cooperation opportunities,and the influence of dominant factors brought by status makes the resources acquisition advantages of high and low status individuals very different,and the high position individuals are more than the low status individuals More resources are allocated.This makes the low status individuals not suitable for the choice of cooperation with different inputs and expected returns.Therefore,individuals in high position have evolved a higher sense of fairness,that is,for individuals with low status,they will give priority to survival and obtain possible cooperation opportunities,which is the adaptive behavior strategy.Based on the agent model,this study used the computer simulation method and the paradigm of public goods game to simulate the co-evolution process of status and sense of fairness in multi-person cooperation.The results confirmed the research hypothesis,and explained that under the influence of the differences in cooperation opportunities brought by status and differences in resource acquisition ability,the Highlanders were more likely to feel unfair in distribution and asked for more allocation,while the lower status people would ask for less allocation.The results indicate that the status and justice sense in reality is the result of co evolution brought by the evolutionary environment that allows the status to produce high governance and high prestige in the process of status evolution,and it is an evolutionary adaptation.Highlanders are more likely to think that the income distribution of cooperative activities is unfair,mainly because the Highlanders have higher governance power.