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Title:Communicating sentiment and outlook reverses inaction against collective risks
Authors:ID Wang, Zhen (Author)
ID Jusup, Marko (Author)
ID Guo, Hao (Author)
ID Shi, Lei (Author)
ID Geček, Sunčana (Author)
ID Anand, Madhur (Author)
ID Perc, Matjaž (Author)
ID Bauch, Chris T. (Author)
ID Kurths, Jürgen (Author)
ID Boccaletti, Stefano (Author)
ID Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim (Author)
Files:.pdf Wang-2020-Communicating_sentiment_and_outlook.pdf (1,07 MB)
MD5: AA0AE8644E46553BFB2B0786811D7D75
 
URL https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922345117
 
Language:English
Work type:Scientific work
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FNM - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Abstract:Collective risks permeate society, triggering social dilemmas in which working toward a common goal is impeded by selfish interests. One such dilemma is mitigating runaway climate change. To study the social aspects of climate-change mitigation, we organized an experimental game and asked volunteer groups of three different sizes to invest toward a common mitigation goal. If investments reached a preset target, volunteers would avoid all consequences and convert their remaining capital into monetary payouts. In the opposite case, however, volunteers would lose all their capital with 50% probability. The dilemma was, therefore, whether to invest one's own capital or wait for others to step in. We find that communicating sentiment and outlook helps to resolve the dilemma by a fundamental shift in investment patterns. Groups in which communication is allowed invest persistently and hardly ever give up, even when their current investment deficits are substantial. The improved investment patterns are robust to group size, although larger groups are harder to coordinate, as evidenced by their overall lower success frequencies. A clustering algorithm reveals three behavioral types and shows that communication reduces the abundance of the free-riding type. Climate-change mitigation, however, is achieved mainly by cooperator and altruist types stepping up and increasing contributions as the failure looms. Meanwhile, contributions from free riders remain flat throughout the game. This reveals that the mechanisms behind avoiding collective risks depend on an interaction between behavioral type, communication, and timing.
Keywords:social dilemma, free riding, climate change, negotiation, group size, COVID-19
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Submitted for review:23.12.2019
Publication date:15.07.2020
Publisher:National Academy of Sciences
Year of publishing:2020
Number of pages:str. 17650-17655
Numbering:Letn. 117, št. 30
PID:20.500.12556/DKUM-91480 New window
UDC:53
ISSN on article:1091-6490
COBISS.SI-ID:25526787 New window
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1922345117 New window
Publication date in DKUM:07.01.2025
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Title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Shortened title:Proc Natl Acad USA
Publisher:National Academy of Sciences
ISSN:1091-6490
COBISS.SI-ID:2318612 New window

Document is financed by a project

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Project number:U1803263

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Project number:11931015

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Project number:81961138010

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Project number:31700393

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Project number:11671348

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Funding programme:Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi
Project number:2019ZDLGY17-07

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Project number:3102019PJ006

Funder:HRZZ - Croatian Science Foundation
Project number:IP-2018-01-3150
Name:Prilagodba uzgoja bijele ribe klimatskim promjenama
Acronym:AqADAPT

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:J4-9302
Name:Raziskave medceličnih komunikacij v večceličnih skupnostih različnih izolatov bakterije iz rodu Bacillus

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:J1-9112
Name:Kvantna lokalizacija v kaotičnih sistemih

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P1-0403
Name:Računsko intenzivni kompleksni sistemi

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License:CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Link:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Description:This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
Licensing start date:15.07.2020

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Language:Slovenian
Keywords:družbena dilema, zastonjkarstvo, podnebne spremembe, pogajanja, velikost skupine, COVID-19


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