PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Diminishing Returns
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Made people solve word problems in a room with a few other people or in. Offered the subjects the ability to leave since it is so crowded a room with 18 other people (very crowded) When it isn"t crowded, they do reasonably well. When it is crowded but they have perceived control, they do a little worse. When it is crowded they do the worst: having people crowded together creates a number of problems. No, this doesn"t seem to be: studies on crowding and violence are often done in prisons because there is control over how crowded the inmates are the case. Social dilemmas are how people go about negotiating the splitting up of resources. 2 trust the other person a lot and most people get too worried about that: example 1: cows grazing grass. Tragedy of commons: a person is always better off confessing than not confessing, they are best off if they both do not confess.
