Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons

Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons

Social cooperation often requires collectively beneficial but individually costly restraint to maintain a public good, or it needs costly generosity to create one. Status quo effects predict that maintaining a public good is easier than providing a new one. Here, we show experimentally and with simu...

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Main Authors: Gaechter, Simon, Kölle, Felix, Quercia, Simone
Format: Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Subjects:
Tragedy of the Commons
public goods
strong and weak reciprocity
evolution of human cooperation
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45170/

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