Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Dilemma, Environmental Psychology, Lottery
20 Dec 2016
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Understanding the effects of natural built & social environments on people. Understanding the effects of people on environments. We"re dealing with a classic social dilemma. Resource management dilemma (rmd): where people take too much of a limited resource. Public good dilemma (pgd): where people don"t give enough. Part 3: how can we resolve social dilemmas: Businesses can be for polluting the environment littering. Every extra bag of garbage is either left behind or have to buy tags for the extra bags, therefore a cost to it: note: this is less effective if people believe: Punishments won"t be given if caught: increase rewards for cooperative behavior: How do we increase perceptions of trust: by observing others who are cooperating: E. g. everyone"s using blue boxes to recycle. E. g. if only one putting out blue recycling on the street can feel like sucker (others are getting a free ride: but, possible problem (with too much trust):
