01.01.2018 |
magazine issue | 01/2018
Cooperation in social dilemmas: How can psychology help to meet climate change goals?
keywords:
climate change / environment / cooperation / social dilemma / tragedy of the commons / social identity / social norms
Cooperation in social dilemmas: How can psychology help to meet climate change goals?
Effectively managing shared natural resources is essential to protecting and improving our physical environment. This cannot be done without cooperation at international, national and local levels. Bringing together research on social dilemmas from the laboratory and the field gives us hope that we can work together to make a difference: we are social beings not ruled purely by economic motives, but influenced by our social context....
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