Abstract In Social Work research there is a strong debate on the distinctiveness and methodological quality, how to address dilemma of rigour practice relevance. Given nature field has developed characteristic culture that puts emphasis giving voice service users disseminating knowledge in practice, especially stream so called practice-based research. However, no consensus best contribute throu...

A greedy personality is usually accompanied by arrogance and confidence. This work investigates the cooperation success condition in context of biased payoff allocation self-confidence. The first component allows organizer a spatial public goods game to receive different proportion than other participants. second aspect influences micro-level dynamics strategy updates, wherein players can maint...

This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. Furthermore, we compare these policy rules with those that follow from a non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. The results show that both global and national public goods are ...

To understand the relative benefits of social and personal information use in foraging decisions, we developed an agent-based model of social learning that predicts social information should be more adaptive where resources are highly variable and personal information where resources vary little. We tested our predictions with bumblebees and found that foragers relied more on social information...