Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness
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Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness
We demonstrate that individual behaviours directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon. Specifically, we establish that agents who have fixed needs to be distinct and adapt their positions to achieve distinctiveness goals, can nevertheless self-organize to a limit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140437