Title: Interplay between social influence and competitive strategical games in multiplex networks,
Abstract: We present a model that takes into account the coupling between evolutionary
game dynamics and social influence. Importantly, social influence and game
dynamics take place in different domains, which we model as different layers of
a multiplex network. We show that the coupling between these dynamical
processes can lead to cooperation in scenarios where the pure game dynamics
predicts defection. In addition, we show that the structure of the network
layers and the relation between them can further increase cooperation.
Remarkably, if the layers are related in a certain way, the system can reach a
polarized metastable state.These findings could explain the prevalence of
polarization observed in many social dilemmas.