Overview

A social dilemma is a game which at first glance has only inefficient solutions. If efficient solutions are to be achieved, some kind of co-operation among the players is required. This book asks two basic questions, closely intertwined with each other: how is co-operation possible among rational players in such a social dilemma?; and how do real players actually behave in social dilemma situations? Do they behave ""rationally"" at all? These two general questions mark the broad spectrum of the problem which has been, over the last three decades, investigated in various disciplines, and which has brought many new ideas and new observations into the study of the old question of social order in a world of born egoists. The volume contains contributions by biologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists, mathematicians, psychologists and philosophers.

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Author:   Ulrich Schulz ,  Wulf Albers ,  Ulrich Mueller ,  W Albers
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Weight:   1.020kg
ISBN:  

9783540577577

ISBN 10:   3540577572
Pages:   541
Publication Date:   13 April 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Social orientation analysis of the common and individual interest problems.- Toward more locomotion in experimental games.- Individual reasoning process in the participation game with period.- The position effect: The role of a player's serial position in a resource dilemma game.- Positive and negative mood effects on solving a resource dilemma.- Fairness judgements in an asymmetric public goods dilemma.- Group size effects in social dilemmas: A review of the experimental literature and some new results for one-shot N-PD games.- Provision of step-level public goods: Effects of different information structures.- Conditional contributions and public good provision.- Convergence in the orange grove: Learning processes in a social dilemma setting.- Leadership and group identity as determinants of resource consumption in a social dilemma.- Prisoner's dilemma networks: Selection strategy versus action strategy.- Choice of strategies in social dilemma supergames.- Social dilemmas exist in space.- Commuting by car or by public transportation? An interdependence theoretical approach.- Evolution of norms without metanorms.- Computer simulations of the relation between individual heuristics and global cooperation in prisoner's dilemmas.- What risk should a selfish partner take in order to save the life of a nonrelative, selfish friend? - A stochastic game approach to the prisoner's dilemma.- Learning models for the prisoner's dilemma game: A review.- Social capital and cooperation: Communication, bounded rationality, and behavioral heuristics.- Cooperation in an asymmetric volunteer's dilemma game: Theory and experimental evidence.- Ten rules of bargaining sequences: A boundedly rational model of coalition bargaining in characteristic function games.- Aspiration processing in multilateral bargaining: Experiment, theory and simulation.- Resistance against mass immigration - An evolutionary explanation.- Authors index.

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