Individual Choices in Dynamic Networks: An Experiment on Social Preferences
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Individual Choices in Dynamic Networks: An Experiment on Social Preferences
Game-theoretic models of network formation typically assume that people create relations so as to maximize their own outcome in the network. Recent experiments on network formation suggest that the assumption of self-interest might be unwarranted and that social preferences, such as altruism and inequality aversion, play a role in the formation of social networks. We developed an experiment to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092276