Inducing Peer Pressure to Promote Cooperation

Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's action is spread thin and wide on the whole society. This leads to the ‘tragedy of the commons’ in which rational action will ultimately make everyone worse...

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Main Authors: Mani, Ankur, Rahwan, Iyad, Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88190
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983