Prescription for Social Dilemmas Psychology for Urban, Transportation, and Environmental Problems /

• Main Author: Fujii, Satoshi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Economic theory.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Sociological Theory.

This book provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs). A SD is a social situation where cooperation maximizing collective or social profit is different from defection maximizing individual profit. Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue...

Table of Contents:

• What Are Social Dilemmas?
• Various Types of Social Dilemmas
• Strategies for Solving Social Dilemmas: Structural Strategy and Psychological Strategy
• Theory for Behavior modification Process for Cooperation
• “Objective–Information–Provision” Method
• “Inducing Temporary Cooperation” Method
• Basic Theory for Communication to Change Attitudes and Behavior
• Communicative Strategies to Change Attitudes and Behavior
• Successes and Crimes of the Structural Strategy
• For Introduction of a Structural Strategy
• Dilemmas of a High Order Produced by Structural Strategy
• Public Acceptance of Structural Strategy
• Concluding Remarks.