Social Dilemmas
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A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in recent decades, with the potential to create a paradigm shift in decision theories. The research reveals that emotions constitute potent, pervasive, predictable, sometimes harmful and sometimes ...Read More
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Each individual's payoff for a non-cooperative choice is higher than their payoff for a cooperative one.
“Each individual's payoff for a non-cooperative choice is higher than their payoff for a cooperative one.”
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Free riding poses a major challenge to self-governance.
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When individual incentives diverge from collective welfare, social dilemmas emerge-classical tragedy-of-the-commons scenarios in which selfish use of shared resources degrades outcomes for all involved.
“When individual incentives diverge from collective welfare, social dilemmas emerge -classical tragedy-of-the-commons scenarios in which selfish use of shared resources degrades outcomes for all involved (Hardin, 1968;Dawes, 1980;Field & Ostrom, 1992).”
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Costly punishment plays an undisputed role in other contexts, such as public goods games, ultimatum games and trust games, which shows that this form of discrimination is highly plausible.
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- Authors
- Dawes, R. M.
- Corresponding author
- Dawes, R M
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1980-01
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 169-193
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- OpenAlex
- W4252488326
- Cited by
- 2,022
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 76 · 2025: 83 · 2024: 66 · 2023: 76 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 82 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 83 · 2017: 85 · 2016: 95 · 2015: 70 · 2014: 67 · 2013: 72 · 2012: 69
- FWCI
- 63.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- social dilemmas, emotions, decision-making
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