Unwritten rules: virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society

Virtual bargaining: a theory of social decision-making

An essential element of goal-directed decision-making in social contexts is that agents' actions may be mutually interdependent. However, the most well-developed approaches to such strategic interactions, based on the Nash equilibrium concept in game theory, are sometimes too broad and at other times 'overlook' good solutions to fundamental social dilemmas and coordination problems. The authors...

Literature and Culture: Both Interaction and Effectiveness

Literature and culture are two inseparable issues. When we talk about the culture, the literature can also appear unconsciously, because the culture is composed of thoughts, feelings and emotions and the styles and personal ways of society, which as a general rule, can appear in terms of principles and respectful rules. The literature on the other hand, discloses and transmits these concepts to...

Big sister is watching you! Gender interaction and the unwritten rules of the Amsterdam red-light district.

It is generally accepted that in sexual interaction men are the hunters and women the gatherers. An expressly sexual environment such as a red-light district would be expected to only reinforce this image. Strikingly enough, however, it is precisely prostitutes who seem able to break with these established gender roles. This ethnographic study uses participant observation to demonstrate how ass...

Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules

Employing a Multi-Criteria Approach under Bankruptcy Conditions for Optimal Allocation of Shared Water Resources through Using Asymmetric Nash Bargaining Method

Management based on the flexibility, fairness, and sustainability characteristics of water resources may play a key role in preventing the continuation of the crisis process as well as reducing water users’ conflict. In the present research, the framework for the optimal allocation of shared water resources was presented using a combination of bankruptcy concepts and asymmetric Nash bargaining....