Self-serving incentives impair collective decisions by increasing conformity.

The average judgment of large numbers of people has been found to be consistently better than the best individual response. But what motivates individuals when they make collective decisions? While it is a popular belief that individual incentives promote out-of-the-box thinking and diverse solution...

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Main Authors: Sepideh Bazazi, Jorina von Zimmermann, Bahador Bahrami, Daniel Richardson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224725