The Role of Social Identity in a Population's Adoption of Prosocial Common-Pool Behavior

IF 2.2 3区工程技术 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Jasss-The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.18564/jasss.5132

Garry Sotnik, Serhii Choporov, T. Shannon

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Abstract

: Prosocial common-pool behavior – subtractable and non-excludable behavior that benefits others – is essential for the survival of any population of social individuals. The behavior, however, usually carries a cost tothosewhocontributeit,placingthematadisadvantagewithrespecttothosewhofreeride–thosewhodonot contributebutstillbenefit.Howpopulationssustainexistingoradoptnewprosocialcommon-poolbehaviors remainsunclear.Weintroduceatheoreticalagent-basedmodelanduseittostudytheroleofsocialidentity inapopulation’sadoptionofsuchbehavior.Socialidentityisrelevantbecauseitinfluencesthebehaviorof individualsinagroup,includingtheirwillingnesstobehaveprosocially.Ourmodelsimulatestheemergenceof multipleanddynamicsocialidentitiesofagentswithinself-organizinggroups.Oursimulationresultssuggest thattheroleofsocialidentitymaydependsubstantiallyonthedensityofthepopulationandthecommitment levelofpopulationmemberstotheirgroups;thattherelationshipbetweendensity,commitment,andadoption maybenuanced;that,underlowerdensitylevels,mobilitybetweengroupsmaybeessential;andthatthe persistenceandadoptionofprosocialbehaviorinapopulationmaybeoverwhelminglydrivenbyindividuals whoarehighlycommittedtotheirgroups.Theresultscautionagainsttheinfluenceoftwoloomingworldwide trends–anincreaseinpopulationdensityandadecreaseingroupcommitment.Theresultssuggestthat,when combined,thesetwotrendsmayproducethelowestadoptionlevelsofprosocialbehavior,theadverseand population-widerepercussionsofwhichcouldbecatastrophic.Finally,ourresultssuggestthatsocialidentity mayplayahelpfulroleinoffsettingtheconsequencesofthesetrends,implyinganeedforfurtherempirical andexperimentalstudyofthesubjectandfutureconsiderationofincorporatingtheroleofsocialidentityinto policyanalysisanddesign.

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社会认同在人群采取亲社会公共池行为中的作用

亲社会的共同行为——有益于他人的可减的和不可排除的行为——对任何社会个体群体的生存都是必不可少的。然而，这种行为通常会让那些做出贡献的人付出代价，使那些没有做出贡献但仍然受益的人处于不利地位。Howpopulationssustainexistingoradoptnewprosocialcommon-poolbehaviors remainsunclear。Weintroduceatheoreticalagent-basedmodelanduseittostudytheroleofsocialidentity inapopulation 'sadoptionofsuchbehavior。Socialidentityisrelevantbecauseitinfluencesthebehaviorof individualsinagroup includingtheirwillingnesstobehaveprosocially。Ourmodelsimulatestheemergenceof multipleanddynamicsocialidentitiesofagentswithinself-organizinggroups。我们的模拟结果表明，社会认同的高低可能在很大程度上取决于人口密度和人口成员对其群体的承诺水平;人口密度、承诺和采用之间的关系可能是微妙的;在人口密度较低的情况下，群体之间的流动性可能是必不可少的;亲社会行为在人口中的持续和采用可能主要是由对其群体高度承诺的个人驱动的。Theresultscautionagainsttheinfluenceoftwoloomingworldwide trends-anincreaseinpopulationdensityandadecreaseingroupcommitment。研究结果表明，当这两种趋势结合在一起时，可能会产生对亲社会行为的最低接受程度，对整个人口的不利影响可能是灾难性的。最后，我们的研究结果表明，社会认同可能在抵消这些趋势的后果方面发挥有益的作用，这意味着需要对该主题进行进一步的实证和实验研究，以及将社会认同的影响纳入政策分析和设计的未来考虑。

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Jasss-The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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7.40

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21 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation is an interdisciplinary journal for the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. Since its first issue in 1998, it has been a world-wide leading reference for readers interested in social simulation and the application of computer simulation in the social sciences. Original research papers and critical reviews on all aspects of social simulation and agent societies that fall within the journal"s objective to further the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation are welcome.