cooperation - Concepts
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Concepts
- Public Goods Game - An experimental game in which players choose how much to contribute to a shared pool that benefits everyone.
- Zero-Sum vs Positive-Sum - Distinguishing situations where gains require losses from those where everyone can benefit.
- Social Norm - An informal rule of behavior shared by a group, sustained by mutual expectation and social sanction.
- Public Good - A good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning everyone can use it and one person's use does not reduce another's.
- Positive-Sum Game - A situation where total value can expand so all participants can benefit simultaneously.
- Stag Hunt - A coordination game in which players must choose between a high-payoff cooperative option that requires trust and a safe, lower-payoff individual option.
- Folk Theorem - In repeated games with sufficient patience, almost any individually rational outcome can be sustained as an equilibrium.
- Repeated Game - A game played multiple times by the same players, where reputation, reciprocity, and long-term incentives reshape strategy.
- Prisoner's Dilemma - A game theory scenario demonstrating why rational individuals might not cooperate even when cooperation would benefit everyone.
- Evolutionary Game Theory - The application of game theory to populations of agents whose strategies evolve under selection pressure.
- Coordination Game - A game-theoretic situation where players benefit from making compatible choices and have little incentive to defect once aligned.
- Collective Action Problem - A situation where multiple individuals would benefit from cooperating but fail to do so because of conflicting individual incentives.
- Battle of the Sexes - A coordination game where two players prefer to be together but disagree on which of two activities to do.
- Free-Rider Problem - When individuals benefit from a shared resource or collective effort without contributing to its provision.
- Abundance Mindset - The belief that there are enough resources and opportunities for everyone to succeed.
- Reputation - The shared impression others hold of an actor based on observed behavior, sustaining trust and cooperation across repeated interactions.
- Tit for Tat - A game theory strategy that starts by cooperating and then mirrors the opponent's previous move in each subsequent round.
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