Talk:Social dilemma

Merger proposal
With collective action problem. No principled distinction between collective action problem and social dilemma is made in the articles, and I am not aware of any from the academic literature. Moreover, a great deal of the content is duplicated. "Collective action problem" generates more hits on google and is less used with other meanings, so I would suggest that the merger go into that page. Unfortunately I don't have the time to make the merge myself right now, but I would suggest that people hold off on editing this page further until a merger is completed. Notyetlost (talk) 15:45, 7 June 2019 (UTC).

Two general comments/questions
1. Should this be an Economics article only? At least a very well known book on the subject ("Social Dilemmas" by Samuel S. Komorita, and Craig D. Parks, Published by Westview Press, 1994 ISBN 0813330033, 9780813330037) argues that Social Dilemmas have been studied by psychologists, sociologists and others in addition to Economists.

2. Should the banner pointing to the need for inline citations link to this subsection directly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Adding_the_citation

Jsarmi (talk) 17:59, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Planned Overhaul
If anyone's interested, I'm starting a project in which I plan to overhaul this page. First and foremost, I plan on finding sources for inline citations, and removing anything that can't be backed up by a reliable source. There will be more info to come, but my initial thoughts are that the examples and conclusions sections are severely lacking. The rest will need to be given citations and I might decide to change the content as I get further into my research. Feel free to check out my sandbox and make suggestions. Sbernt13 (talk) 17:05, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Dr. Gurerk's comment on this article
Dr. Gurerk has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"The following text could be added to the Section "Structural solutions": ---

Another structural solution to increase cooperation in social dilemmas is to give agents the possibility to endogenously determine the "rules of the game" from a given set of systems with different (sanctioning) properties. Experimental studies show that voting on the system [1], or even simply having the possibility to freely enter and exit the competing systems [2,3] may increase the cooperation rates, compared to exogenous and fixed allocation of agents to the same systems.

--- References:

Sutter, M., Haigner, S., & Kocher, M. G. (2010). Choosing the Carrot or the Stick? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations. The Review of Economic Studies, 77(4), 1540–1566.

Gürerk, O., Irlenbusch, B., & Rockenbach, B. (2006). The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions. Science, 312(5770), 108–111.

Gürerk, Ö., Irlenbusch, B., & Rockenbach, B. (2014). On cooperation in open communities. Journal of Public Economics, 120, 220–230."

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

We believe Dr. Gurerk has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:


 * Reference : Gurerk, Ozgur, 2010. "Social learning increases the acceptance and the efficiency of punishment institutions in social dilemmas," MPRA Paper 27357, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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