Marta C Couto Postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam

Publications


Couto MC, Santos FP, Hilbe C (2026). Evolution of noisy learning in games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Franco GD, Couto MC, Vasconcelos VV, Santos FP (2026). Combining opinion and structural similarity in link recommendations to counter extreme polarization. arXiv, arXiv:2604.20641

Couto MC, Barsotti F, Santos FP (2025). Population size effects on strategic classification dynamics. The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)

Couto MC, Barsotti F, Santos FP (2025). Collective dynamics of strategic classification. arXiv, arXiv:2508.09340

Couto MC, Pal S (2023). Introspection Dynamics in Asymmetric Multiplayer Games. Dynamic Games and Applications, 13, 1256–1285.

Wang X, Couto MC, Wang N, An X, Chen B, Dong Y, Hilbe C, Zhang B (2023). Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378:20210504.

Couto MC, Giaimo S, Hilbe C (2022). Introspection dynamics: A simple model of counterfactual learning in asymmetric games. New Journal of Physics, 24:063010.

Couto MC, Pacheco JM, & Santos FC (2020). Governance of Risky Public Goods under Graduated Punishment. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 505:110423.


Press releases & media articles


‘Sloppy’ choices help humanity to progress by Folia (2026)

When ‘sloppy’ decisions are actually smart by University of Amsterdam (2026)

When noisy decision-making becomes a strategic advantage by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (2026)

How does inequality affect cooperation and coordination? by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (2023)