The price of anarchy (PoA) is a standard measure for the inefficiency selfish routing in static Wardrop traffic model. Empirical studies and recent analysis reveal surprising property that PoA tends to one when total demand T gets large. These results are extended by new framework limit arbitrary nonatomic congestion games apply growth patterns all regularly varying cost functions. For with Bur...

First published in: Psychiatry. Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Process, Washington (The William Alanson Psychiatric Foundation), Vol. 2 (1939), pp. 507-523. Reprint in the Yearbook of the International Erich Fromm Society, Vol. 5 (1994): Dealing with the Alien, Münster: LIT-Verlag, 1995, pp. 173-197. Copyright © 1994 and 2001 by The Literary Estate of Erich Fromm, c/o Dr. Rainer Funk, U...

Many situations in human life present choices between (a) narrowly preferred particular alternatives and (b) narrowly less preferred (or aversive) particular alternatives that nevertheless form part of highly preferred abstract behavioral patterns. Such alternatives characterize problems of self-control. For example, at any given moment, a person may accept alcoholic drinks yet also prefer bein...

Genes that in certain conditions make their carriers altruistic are being identified, and altruism and selfishness have shown to be heritable in man. This raises the possibility that genetic polymorphisms for altruism/selfishness exist in man and other animals. Here we characterize some of the conditions in which genetic polymorphisms may occur. We show for dominant or recessive alleles how the...

Selfishness vs. fairness are basic dimensions of relating to others, and many computer-mediated communications among young people involve subtle decisions balancing selfishness vs. fairness. We report five experiments investigating the influence of affect on interpersonal decisions in CMC in strategic games such as the dictator game and the ultimatum game. In the dictator game, proposers have u...

1570-8705/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.07.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Q. Li), (W. Gao), [email protected] (S. Zhu), [email protected] 1 In this paper, a social tie means an interpersonal strong or weak category defined by Granovetter [5]. Existing routing algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) assume that nodes are willin...

This study aimed to develop a new Acceptance of Selfishness at the Workplace Scale (ASWS) and to confirm Maslow's hypothesis of synergy: if both a sense of contribution and acceptance of selfishness at the workplace are high, workers are psychologically healthy. In a cross-sectional study with employees of three Japanese companies, 656 workers answered a self-administered questionnaire on paper...

It is argued that replicators evolving through natural selection on the basis of fitness are intrinsically selfish. Though the synergy resulting from cooperation is generally advantageous, selfish or subsystem optimization precludes the reaching of a globally optimal cooperative arrangement. This predicament is exemplified by the "Prisoner's dilemma". Different proposals to explain the evolutio...