Researchers commonly use this public - goods exercise to
examine social dilemmas because individual participants will benefit the most by selfishly free - riding off everyone else's contributions while contributing nothing themselves.
Not exact matches
With the prisoner's
dilemma, Sigmund said, one could use math to
examine the thorniest conundrum of our
social lives: how to weigh personal gain against the common good.
The study will
examine young people, aged 15 - 25, who regularly participate in online games,
social networking sites, and other online communities through in - depth interviews, hypothetical ethical
dilemmas, and observations of youth participating in online communities.
Collins, a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland,
examined the
dilemmas of changing freedoms and
social inequities in her keynote address.