Coevolution of actions, personal norms and beliefs about others in social dilemmas.

ABSTRACT: Human decision-making is affected by a diversity of factors including material cost-benefit considerations, normative and cultural influences, learning and conformity with peers and external authorities (e.g. cultural, religious, political, organisational). Also important are dynamically changing personal perceptions of the situation and beliefs about actions and expectations of others as well as psychological phenomena such as cognitive dissonance and social projection. To better understand these processes, I develop a unifying modelling framework describing the joint dynamics of actions and attitudes of individuals and their beliefs about the actions and attitudes of their groupmates. I consider which norms get internalised and which factors control beliefs about others. I predict that t

SUBMITTER: Gavrilets S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427329 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature