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Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games
The problem of public good provision is central in economics and touches upon many challenging societal issues, ranging from climate change mitigation to vaccination schemes. However, results which are supposed to be applied to a societal scale have only been obtained with small groups of people, wi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6803689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31636287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50964-w |
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author | Pereda, María Tamarit, Ignacio Antonioni, Alberto Cuesta, Jose A. Hernández, Penélope Sánchez, Angel |
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description | The problem of public good provision is central in economics and touches upon many challenging societal issues, ranging from climate change mitigation to vaccination schemes. However, results which are supposed to be applied to a societal scale have only been obtained with small groups of people, with a maximum group size of 100 being reported in the literature. This work takes this research to a new level by carrying out and analysing experiments on public good games with up to 1000 simultaneous players. The experiments are carried out via an online protocol involving daily decisions for extended periods. Our results show that within those limits, participants’ behaviour and collective outcomes in very large groups are qualitatively like those in smaller ones. On the other hand, large groups imply the difficulty of conveying information on others’ choices to the participants. We thus consider different information conditions and show that they have a drastic effect on subjects’ contributions. We also classify the individual decisions and find that they can be described by a moderate number of types. Our findings allow to extend the conclusions of smaller experiments to larger settings and are therefore a relevant step forward towards the understanding of human behaviour and the organisation of our society. |
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spelling | pubmed-68036892019-10-24 Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games Pereda, María Tamarit, Ignacio Antonioni, Alberto Cuesta, Jose A. Hernández, Penélope Sánchez, Angel Sci Rep Article The problem of public good provision is central in economics and touches upon many challenging societal issues, ranging from climate change mitigation to vaccination schemes. However, results which are supposed to be applied to a societal scale have only been obtained with small groups of people, with a maximum group size of 100 being reported in the literature. This work takes this research to a new level by carrying out and analysing experiments on public good games with up to 1000 simultaneous players. The experiments are carried out via an online protocol involving daily decisions for extended periods. Our results show that within those limits, participants’ behaviour and collective outcomes in very large groups are qualitatively like those in smaller ones. On the other hand, large groups imply the difficulty of conveying information on others’ choices to the participants. We thus consider different information conditions and show that they have a drastic effect on subjects’ contributions. We also classify the individual decisions and find that they can be described by a moderate number of types. Our findings allow to extend the conclusions of smaller experiments to larger settings and are therefore a relevant step forward towards the understanding of human behaviour and the organisation of our society. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6803689/ /pubmed/31636287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50964-w Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Pereda, María Tamarit, Ignacio Antonioni, Alberto Cuesta, Jose A. Hernández, Penélope Sánchez, Angel Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
title | Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
title_full | Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
title_fullStr | Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
title_full_unstemmed | Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
title_short | Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
title_sort | large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6803689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31636287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50964-w |
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