Economic theories of team reasoning build on the assumption that agents can sometimes behave according to beliefs or preferences attributed to a group or a team. In this paper, I propose a different framework to introduce collective intentionality into game theory. I build on John Searle’s account, which makes collective intentionality constitutive of institutional facts. I show that as soon as...

Abstract Scholars present their new research at seminars and conferences send drafts to peers in hopes of receiving comments suggestions that will improve the quality work. Using a dataset projects were initiated when authors doing doctoral studies, this article measures how much peers’ individual collective research. Controlling for idea author, I find one-standard-deviation increase number is...

W ith the publication of The Logic of Collective Action in 1965, Mancur Olson challenged a cherished foundation of modern democratic thought that groups would tend to form and take collective action whenever members jointly benefitted. Instead, Olson (1965, p. 2) offered the provocative assertion that no self-interested person would contribute to the production of a public good: " [U ] nless th...

This paper examines the importance of neighbourhood context in explaining violence in London. Exploring in a new context Sampson’s work on the relationship between interdependent spatial patterns of concentrated disadvantage and crime, we assess whether collective efficacy (i.e. shared expectations about norms, values and goals, as well as the ability of members of the community to realise thes...

To understand the social driving forces that lead to environmental change, we must account for the role of social interactions, the development of norms of behavior and the institutionalization of rules and norms — the development of ‘social capital’. This paper demonstrates the utility of social capital theory by articulating linkages between human decision making at individual and collective ...

In this presentation preliminary evidence will be shown to indicate that a minority of informed individuals can influence the collective behaviour of their peers in the distributed object sorting task. From the applications standpoint this suggests that the collective decisions as to where a robot swarm places its clusters of sorted materials can be governed by informing only a minority of robo...

This introduction outlines the goals for special section on social norms and behavioral development. The study of has attracted much interest in peer relations research, turned attention to group-level processes, often defined based classroom, which create sustain shared meanings that impact adolescent adjustment. Norms can be differentiated three ways. First, prescriptive or injunctive disting...

Preferences in popular music among teen-age girls vary according to the neighborhood in which a girl lives and her relative popularity among her peers. Highly popular girls are shown to conform more closely than the less popular to the prevailing neighborhood norms in popular music. Musical tastes and preferences for particular songs and for particular disk jockeys are found to be anchored in r...

During the 1998 Football World Cup Finals in France, English supporters were, once again, involved in major incidents of collective 'disorder'. Explanations for these incidents concentrated on the conflictual norms held by 'hooligans'. In contrast, Scottish supporters attending the tournament displayed norms of non-violence, explained by the popular press in terms of the absence of 'hooligans'....