Conditions for the Emergence of Shared Norms in Populations with Incompatible Preferences
Figure 4
Average payoff of all individuals in the course of time t for the two scenarios illustrated in Fig. 3, assuming the parameters A = 1, B = 0.5, R = 10, r = 0.01, S = 0.8.
Dotted curve on the top: the behavior preferred by the majority wins through (p1 = 0.5, p2 = 0.5), Dashed curve on the bottom: the behavior preferred by the minority establishes the norm (p1 = 0.5, p2 = 0.5). Note that, compared to the (initial) coexistence of the two behaviors, the average payoff increases even, if the behavior preferred by the minority wins through.