Resource dilemmas with environmental uncertainty and asymmetric players
Abstract
Groups of subjects participated in a series of 30 noncooperative independent single‐trial resource dilemmas. On each trial the subjects in each group requested privately a number of points from a common pool. Individual requests were granted if and only if the total group request was equal to or smaller than the pool size. The pool size on each trial was sampled randomly from a uniform distribution that was common knowledge. Asymmetry in payoff was induced by assigning to each group member a different points‐to‐money exchange rate. The results show that as the uncertainty about the pool size increases subjects (1) overestimate the pool size, (2) increase their requests, and (3) expect others to increase their requests. In addition (4) individual requests and expectations regarding others' requests are inversely related to the exchange rates, reflecting attempts to equate payoffs across group members.
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Uncertainty can cause people to justify continuing in their current state rather than responding to information with adaptive action.
“Uncertainty can also cause people to justify continuing in their current state rather than responding to information with adaptive action (Budescu, Rapoport, and Suleiman, 1990)”
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- Authors
- Budescu, D. V., Rapoport, A., & Suleiman, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Haifa (IL)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Corresponding author
- Budescu, David V.
- Venue
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1990-11
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 475-487
- ISSN
- 0046-2772 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0992
- OpenAlex
- W2076494245
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 6.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- European Journal of Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Israel Science Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- resource dilemmas, environmental uncertainty, asymmetric payoffs, common-pool resources, exchange rates, non-cooperative game, public goods
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