Game Theory: When Are Groups Social? Or Insufferable?
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 14:50
in Psychology & Sociology
Humans are primarily social creatures - Thoreau may have pretended he wanted to sit among nature by himself and write a book but he was in a house built by someone else, paid for by someone else, with clothes made by someone else, and writing a book that would be published by someone else. People band together in groups to be stronger - about causes or for actual defense. How to prompt people to become social rather than anti-social is one of the central goals of game theory. read more