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Sociality as a Natural Mechanism of Public Goods Provision

In the recent literature, several hypotheses have been offered to explain patterns of human behavior in social environments. In particular, these patterns include ‘prosocial’ ones, such as fairness, cooperation, and collective good provision. Psychologists suggest that these prosocial behaviors are...

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Autores principales: Berkman, Elliot T., Lukinova, Evgeniya, Menshikov, Ivan, Myagkov, Mikhail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25790099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119685
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description In the recent literature, several hypotheses have been offered to explain patterns of human behavior in social environments. In particular, these patterns include ‘prosocial’ ones, such as fairness, cooperation, and collective good provision. Psychologists suggest that these prosocial behaviors are driven not by miscalculations, but by salience of social identity, in-group favoritism, emotion, or evolutionary adaptations. This paper imports psychology scholarship into an economic model and results in a sustainable solution to collective action problems without any external enforcement mechanisms. This natural mechanism of public goods provision is created, analyzed, and observed in a controlled laboratory environment using experimental techniques.
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spelling pubmed-43662352015-03-23 Sociality as a Natural Mechanism of Public Goods Provision Berkman, Elliot T. Lukinova, Evgeniya Menshikov, Ivan Myagkov, Mikhail PLoS One Research Article In the recent literature, several hypotheses have been offered to explain patterns of human behavior in social environments. In particular, these patterns include ‘prosocial’ ones, such as fairness, cooperation, and collective good provision. Psychologists suggest that these prosocial behaviors are driven not by miscalculations, but by salience of social identity, in-group favoritism, emotion, or evolutionary adaptations. This paper imports psychology scholarship into an economic model and results in a sustainable solution to collective action problems without any external enforcement mechanisms. This natural mechanism of public goods provision is created, analyzed, and observed in a controlled laboratory environment using experimental techniques. Public Library of Science 2015-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4366235/ /pubmed/25790099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119685 Text en © 2015 Berkman et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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