Fig. 6: The threshold for the outbreak of defection on temporal networks reaches its maximum at the intermediate aggregation time windows.

For all empirical datasets we considered, the corresponding thresholds governed by Equation (3) are presented numerically in scatter plots over the different aggregation time windows \(\Delta t\). The corresponding lines are given by least square quadratic regression with \(R^2 \, > \, 0.7\). Note that, for each dataset, the maximum \(\Delta t\) is the total time the corresponding dataset covers (see Supplementary Table 1).