Overview
Offers a comprehensive understanding of behavior and psychology in social dilemmas, including basic and applied science along with pragmatic solutions
Provides new solutions to researchers and practitioners for environmental problems, sustainable transportation, and urban management
Shows behavioral scientists and psychologists how their research can contribute to solving real world problems
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Psychological Strategy
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About this book
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 individual profit and immediate satisfaction rather than behave in the group’s best long-term interests. The problems include an environmental problem and various types of urban, economic, and political problems. Most books treating SDs are not monographs but are proceedings or omnibus volumes written by different researchers. Few monographs have been published for SDs, but those few deal only with basic theories and empirical findings. This book, by contrast, is a monograph by a single author and provides complete coverage from basic theories in Part I to applied theories and pragmatic solutions for urban, transportation, and environmental problems in Parts II and III.
Various types of strategies are proposed in this book to overcome the problems caused by SDs in various situations based on the basic theories of those dilemmas. The strategies are psychological and structural ones. The book includes theories, empirical evidence in experiments, and practical policies in the real world for these strategies. Thus, the work effectively provides a bridge between basic behavioral scientists, applied behavioral scientists, and practitioners. With this useful source, basic scientists will understand how to apply their scientific knowledge to the real world and also will encounter new scientific problems that should be solved scientifically. Applied researchers and specialists will become familiar with new solutions through basic research on SDs and will be made aware of new pragmatic problems that should be solved with a practical approach.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prescription for Social Dilemmas
Book Subtitle: Psychology for Urban, Transportation, and Environmental Problems
Authors: Satoshi Fujii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55618-3
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55617-6Published: 02 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56668-7Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55618-3Published: 25 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Sociological Theory