Conditions for the emergence of shared norms in populations with incompatible preferences.

Understanding norms is a key challenge in sociology. Nevertheless, there is a lack of dynamical models explaining how one of several possible behaviors is established as a norm and under what conditions. Analysing an agent-based model, we identify interesting parameter dependencies that imply when t...

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Main Authors: Dirk Helbing, Wenjian Yu, Karl-Dieter Opp, Heiko Rauhut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4148260?pdf=render