Payoff Nonmonotonic dynamics in an Evolutionary Game

We propose an evolutionary game with dynamics rules derived from the consideration of field observations on human social behavior driven by self-confidence and social imitation. This dynamics turns out to be payoff nonmonotonic. The effects on the dynamics induced by this property are studied both numerically and analytically.

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