Behavioural patterns behind the demise of the commons across different cultures

Common-pool resources require a dose of self-restraint to ensure sustainable exploitation, but this has often proven elusive in practice. To understand why, and characterize behaviours towards ecological systems in general, we devised a social dilemma experiment in which participants gain profit fro...

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Main Authors: M. Jusup, F. Maciel-Cardoso, C. Gracia-Lázaro, C. Liu, Z. Wang, Y. Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2020-07-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.201026