Mean-field games for marriage.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24804835.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0094933 and PMC identifier 4012996.
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Abstract
This article examines mean-field games for marriage. The results support the argument that optimizing the long-term well-being through effort and social feeling state distribution (mean-field) will help to stabilize marriage. However, if the cost of effort is very high, the couple fluctuates in a bad feeling state or the marriage breaks down. We then examine the influence of society on a couple using mean-field sentimental games. We show that, in mean-field equilibrium, the optimal effort is always higher than the one-shot optimal effort. We illustrate numerically the influence of the couple's network on their feeling states and their well-being.
Medical subject headings
- Marriage
- Models, Theoretical