The article investigates how computer simulations and experiments illuminate why gaming may have evolved as a social strategy, highlighting the conditions under which gaming could promote alliance formation and cooperation. It compares laboratory interactions with agent-based models to understand when gaming influences perceived value and closeness, and under what ecological pressures gaming can spread evolutionarily.

The topic is of interest to psychology-minded readers because it ties social bonding, cooperation, and competitive behavior to underlying evolutionary and cognitive processes. It also demonstrates how complex social dynamics can emerge from both real interactions and computational modeling, offering a nuanced view of human play and its functions.

Article Title: What computer simulations reveal about the evolutionary purpose of gaming
Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/what-computer-simulations-reveal-about-the-evolutionary-purpose-of-gaming/

#gaming #evolution #socialdynamics #bonding #computermodeling

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/googles-new-weather-model-impressed-during-its-first-hurricane-season/

#science #weather #hurricane #computermodeling

By combining several years of observations from #NASA's #HubbleSpaceTelescope along with conducting #computermodeling, astronomers have found evidence for massive #cyclones and other dynamic #weatheractivity swirling on a hot, #Jupiter-sized #planet 880 light-years away.

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-nasa-hubble-exoplanet-atmosphere-years.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

A trio of #astrophysicists with Harvard and Smithsonian's Center for Astrophysics has found via #computermodeling that the likely reason for the warp and flare of the #MilkyWay #galaxy is a tilt of the #darkhalo. In their #paper published in the journal #NatureAstronomy, #JiwonJesseHan, #CharlieConroy and #LarsHernquist describe their #theories regarding the shape of the Milky Way galaxy and what their #model showed.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-milky-warp-flare-due-tilt.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Out now: TATuP's first issue in 2023 on "Modeling for policy: #DecisionMaking with AI, models, and computer simulations". 📖

Find all articles #openaccess at 👉 http://tatup.de published at oekomverlag!

Many thanks to to the special topic editors Andreas Kaminski (@TU), Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTHHumTec) and Dirk Scheer (@ITAS_KIT) & to all authors:
@jens_haelterlein @m @noosphaere et al. 👏👏👏

#TATuP #TechnologyAssessment #ComputerModeling #PolicyMaking