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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Social Dilemmas"”.
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Mitigating Generative Agent Social Dilemmas
In social dilemmas, individuals would be better off cooperating but fail to do so due to conflicting interests that discourage cooperation. Existing work on social dilemmas in AI has focused on standard agent design paradigms, most recently in the context of multi-agent reinforcement learning …
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Dissertations on decision-making: similarity, constructive judgements, morality and social dilemmas
… also shows significant interest in moral and social psychology. Specifically, we consider present technologies that suggest a need for evaluating alternative contexts for ethical decision-making. How the research on human-machine interaction feeds back into humans’ understanding of themselves …
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Mitigating Social Dilemmas in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Formal Contracting
… jam). Situations such as these are termed social dilemmas. In this thesis, it is demonstrated that providing RL agents with the software infrastructure to precommit to zero-sum incentive modifications 1. Induces maximal social welfare in theory; and 2. When implemented with deep multi-agent …
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Achieving Robustness and Generalization in MARL for Sequential Social Dilemmas through Bilinear Value Networks
… unforeseen gameplay strategies in sequential social dilemma (SSD) games. Recent literature has demonstrated that reward shaping can not only be used to enable MARL agents to discover diverse, human-interpretable strategies with emergent qualities, but also help alleviate the issue in …
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The Longest Journey Begins With a Single Step: A Real Options Approach to Social Dilemmas
Collective action faces a public goods social dilemma where there exists an inherent tension between individual and collective interests. Considering the economic and social significance of public goods dilemmas, an important research question is why public goods dilemmas often result in collective …
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Using the Concepts of Framing and Loss Aversion to Answer Pertinent Questions on Cooperative Behaviors in Social Dilemmas
… better the behaviors of cooperators in social dilemmas. The first hypothesis was constructed in response to Schwartz-Shea and Simmon's (1995) criticism on the applicability of the framing concept to explain level of cooperation in public goods and resource dilemmas. It tested the …
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Essays on Leadership Selection and Public Goods Provision in Self-Help Organizations
… of these farmer associations in overcoming social dilemmas and in providing goods and services to their members, varied tremendously. Why are some groups more successful than others in overcoming the social dilemmas inherent in public goods production? To explain this variation, the …
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Predicting Children's Sociometric Status From Their Behavior
… tested whether the responses to hypothetical social dilemmas found to differentiate popular and unpopular children in earlier research would generalize in the form of actual behavioral differences to analogous real situations.
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Evolution in finite structured populations with group interactions
… processes, a class of multiplayer games called social dilemmas are defined for variable group sizes. The two main types of social dilemmas are identified, namely public goods dilemmas and commons dilemmas, and examples of each type of dilemma are given whose characteristics are visually …
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A Plan for Improvement of the School Climate in a Middle School in Southwest Georgia
… that are responsible for solving many of the social dilemmas that are occurring as a result of a rapidly changing society. Andrews and Parks (1985) suggest that schools today are being required to not only educate children academically, but to also help them adapt socially to their rapidly …
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The group-based binding pledge as a solution to public goods problems
A social dilemma is a situation in which members of a group are faced with a conflict between two choices: maximizing personal interests (defection) or maximizing collective interests (cooperation). It is generally more profitable to defect, but if all do so, all are worse off than if all choose to …
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The dilemma of refugees: lessons from the Thai experience
… be absorbed without incurring political. social and economic costs to the receiving state. To contribute to regional stability and international peace. the United States must be Vigilaint to the dangers and tensions inherent in the international problem of refugees. Nowhere have the …
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Justice, Sanctioning, and Retaliation In Public Goods Dilemmas
… and collective interests are at odds. Actors in social dilemmas are typically confronted with two choices: to cooperate with group interests, often at some expense of self-interest, or to free-ride off others' cooperation. A dilemma thus ensues in that the individually rational strategy of …
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THE WEST AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC; AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
… fair share of modern-day political, economic and social dilemmas. One phenomenon that has had huge negative implications on the political, economic and social spheres of almost every country on the face of the earth is the production, trafficking, marketing and consumption of illicit drugs. The …
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Behaviour in Common-Pool Resource games: investigating decision-making towards conservation and environmental issues
… commons’, various fields, including economics, social sciences, conservation and environmental sciences have invested a great amount of effort to identify the characteristics that allow groups of individuals to administer and organise the use of common resources. The game used in the current …
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Demanding Values : Participation, empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh
… identifying and trying to understand general social phenomena. Theoretical perspectives that emanate from empirical backgrounds that are different from the development arena, but that share a focus on similar social dilemmas, are seldom used to enhance our understanding of NGOs, or of the …
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Norm Conformity and Social Identity In Collective Action Groups
… question receiving little prior attention in the social identity literature: how can groups effectively increase social identification among group members? Given the strong and positive relationship between identification and cooperation found in prior work, understanding the factors that increase …
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Exploration and harnessing of usable knowledge in interpretive participatory research : a case of women in the Zambian mining community
… setting is characterised by the outcomes of post-socialist privatisation of mining enterprises experienced in the mid 1990s, which have impacted the livelihoods of mining community members and altered their conventional context. In particular, this study engages the perceptions of women aged 45 …
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Analysis of the Relationships between Changes in Distributed System Behavior and Group Dynamics
The rapid evolution of portable devices and social media has enabled pervasive forms of distributed cooperation. A group could perform a task using a heterogeneous set of the devices (desktop, mobile), connections (wireless, wired, 3G) and software clients. We call this form of systems Distributed …