Competition and Conformity

From Appeasement to Conformity Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives on Shame, Competition, and Cooperation

Dynamic pricing with the counter-conformity, conformity and non-conformity of consumer behavior

Confronted with well-informed consumers, the firms have to take everything into consideration. Through the classic game theory, pricing mechanism is discussed with different characteristics of consumer behavior. The consumer population is heterogeneous along two dimensions: they may have an inclination towards the obedience of the public and different degrees of patience. After introducing the ...

Interpretation, Coordination and Conformity

The aim of this note is to investigate a very general problem of (radical) interpretation in terms of a simple coordination game: the conformity game. We show how, within our mathematical framework, the solution concept for the conformity game does indeed provide an algorithmic procedure facilitating triangulation, in the sense of Davidson.

Durable Goods and Conformity

Is the variety of products supplied in markets a reflection of the diversity of consumers’ preferences? In this paper, we argue that the distribution of durable goods offered in markets tends to be compressed relative to the distribution of consumers’ underlying preferences. In particular, there are strong incentives for conformity in markets for durable goods. The reason for conformity is natu...

Liberals, conservatives, and conformity

Patterns of conforming behavior were compared for Ss empirically contrasted as conservatives, moderates, or liberals on a politically based Thurstone-type scale. In a split-plot factorial analysis-ofvariance design, liberalism-conservatism of the Ss and political identification of the influence sources were employed as between-Ss variables, while task difficulty opera ted as a within·Ss variabl...