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Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness

We demonstrate that individual behaviours directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon. Specifically, we establish that agents who have fixed needs to be distinct and...

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Autores principales: Smaldino, Paul E., Epstein, Joshua M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140437