Heuristics Facilitates the Evolution of Transitive Inference and Social Hierarchy in a Large Group

IF 16.4 1区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Kazuto Doi, Mayuko Nakamaru
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Transitive inference (TI) refers to social cognition that facilitates the discernment of unknown relationships between individuals using known relationships. It is extensively reported that TI evolves in animals living in a large group because TI could assess relative rank without deducing all dyadic relationships, which averts costly fights. The relationships in a large group become so complex that social cognition may not be developed adequately to handle such complexity. If members apply TI to all possible members in the group, TI requires extremely highly developed cognitive abilities especially in a large group. Instead of developing cognitive abilities significantly, animals may apply simplified TI we call reference TI in this study as heuristic approaches. The reference TI allows members to recognize and remember social interactions only among a set of reference members rather than all potential members. Our study assumes that information processes in the reference TI comprises (1) the number of reference members based on which individuals infer transitively, (2) the number of reference members shared by the same strategists, and (3) memory capacity. We examined how information processes evolve in a large group using evolutionary simulations in the hawk–dove game. Information processes with almost any numbers of reference members could evolve in a large group as long as the numbers of shared reference member are high because information from the others’ experiences is shared. TI dominates immediate inference, which assesses relative rank on direct interactions, because TI could establish social hierarchy more rapidly applying information from others’ experiences.

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启发式促进了大群体传递推理和社会等级的进化
传递推理(TI)是一种社会认知,它有助于利用已知关系识别个体之间的未知关系。据广泛报道,TI在生活在大群体中的动物中进化,因为TI可以在不推断所有双元关系的情况下评估相对等级,从而避免代价高昂的战斗。一个大群体中的关系变得如此复杂,以至于社会认知可能没有得到充分发展来处理这种复杂性。如果成员将TI应用于团队中所有可能的成员,那么TI对认知能力的要求就非常高,尤其是在一个大的团队中。而不是显著发展认知能力,动物可能应用简化的TI,我们称之为参考TI作为启发式方法在本研究中。参考TI允许成员只识别和记住一组参考成员之间的社会互动,而不是所有潜在成员。我们的研究假设参考TI中的信息处理包括(1)个体基于传递性推断的参考成员的数量,(2)相同策略共享的参考成员的数量,以及(3)记忆容量。我们研究了信息处理过程是如何在一个大群体中进化的,使用了鹰鸽博弈中的进化模拟。在一个大的群体中,只要共享的参考成员数量多,几乎任何数量的参考成员的信息处理都可以进化,因为来自其他人经验的信息是共享的。TI主导了即时推理,它在直接互动中评估相对等级,因为TI可以更快速地利用他人经验中的信息建立社会等级。
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Accounts of Chemical Research
Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合
CiteScore
31.40
自引率
1.10%
发文量
312
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍: Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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