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The psychology of social dilemmas: A review.

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The field of social dilemma is growing and flourishing in terms of theory, interdisciplinary collaboration, and applicability, producing insights that are novel, replicable, and applicable to many social situations where short-term self-interest is at odds with the long-term interests of teams, organizations, or nations as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 543 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social dilemma & Social change.

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The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

TL;DR: Even though participants approve of autonomous vehicles that might sacrifice passengers to save others, respondents would prefer not to ride in such vehicles, and regulating for utilitarian algorithms may paradoxically increase casualties by postponing the adoption of a safer technology.
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World happiness report

TL;DR: The report, published by the Earth Institute and co-edited by the institute's director, Jeffrey Sachs, reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and absence of misery as criteria for government policy.

World happiness report 2013

TL;DR: The World Happiness Report 2013 as discussed by the authors is a contribution to that crucial debate and is sponsored by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the World Happiness Association (WHA).
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Trust, conflict, and cooperation: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: The results support an emerging consensus about trust being limited to situations of conflict and address some theoretical and societal implications for the understanding of how and why trust is so important to social interactions and relationships.
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Advancing Multilevel Research Design Capturing the Dynamics of Emergence

TL;DR: It is argued that direct quantitative approaches, largely represented by computational modeling or agent-based simulation, have much to offer with respect to illuminating the mechanisms of emergence as a dynamic process, and illustrated how indirect and direct approaches can be complementary and, appropriately integrated, have the potential to substantially advance theory and research.
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The Tragedy of the Commons

TL;DR: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

TL;DR: Theory of games and economic behavior as mentioned in this paper is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based, and it has been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations.
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The Evolution of Cooperation

TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
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The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I

TL;DR: A genetical mathematical model is described which allows for interactions between relatives on one another's fitness and a quantity is found which incorporates the maximizing property of Darwinian fitness, named “inclusive fitness”.