Fluctuating environments: The net preference for choice A () fluctuates sinusoidally with time. In the top panel, we plot the median trajectory of the fraction of different sub-populations, i.e. the conformists (solid lines) and anticonformists (dotted lines), picking choice A over time. Colors indicate populations that vary in the value of the correlation between degree and anticonformity, keeping the fraction of anticonformists equal to 0.2. As anticonformists become more central, they switch their choices to the alternative behavior or technology before it is even profitable. This allows the conformists’ choices to track better the changes in preferences (dashed line). The bottom panel shows the average alignment between the choices and preferences of the two sub-populations and for the entire population over time as a function of differing degree centrality of anticonformists in the population. The population size considered is fixed at .
