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Social dilemmas (or social traps, as they are sometimes called) are situations in which each participant appears to be acting rationally, and yet the result is to everyone’s disadvantage. For example if a fire breaks out in a crowded theatre and everyone rushes to the exits, everyone may be trapped in the resulting crush.
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© 1998 Anatol Rapoport
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Rapoport, A. (1998). Social Dilemmas. In: Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377769_13
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