This paper investigates the influence that social ties can have on behavior. After defining the concept of social ties that we consider, we introduce an original model of social ties. The impact of such ties on social preferences is studied in a coordination game with outside option. We provide a detailed game theoretical analysis of this game while considering various types of players, i.e., s...

Research in design creativity has focused on individual creativity and on creativity in a collaborative or organizational setting. Collective design and crowdsourcing creativity differ from individual and collaborative creative design by building on the foundations of social computing so thatindividuals are motivated to contribute voluntarily. Research that improves our understanding and suppor...

Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social so powerful: information ‘curated' by helpful teachers. I argue that both from others (social learning) helping learn (teaching) can be characterized probabilistic inferences guided an intuitive understanding how people think, plan, act. Cons...

Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in other people’s other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that people derive nonpecuniary utility (i) from mutual cooperation in social dilemma (SD) games and (ii) from punishing unfair behavior. Thus, mutua...

Aviation security relies on the assumption that risks can be mitigated through rule compliance. To assure this, the operational design and logistical process has fashioned airports into mass production organizations where human behaviors e of both employees and passengers e are defined within a rational and logical framework. However, recent empirical evidence raises some critical issues as to ...

this study examines the educational ideas of zoroastrianism based on gathas. for achieving this purpose, the conclusion method has been used; firstly, zoroaster has been introduced then the philosophical foundations of the religion have been formulized in the form of ideal human being and his/her features. finally, the implications of these foundations are presented in the form of educational c...

Sociologists frequently invoke the concept of form when analyzing organizations, collective action, art, music, culture and other phenomena. Nonetheless, the form concept has not received careful theoretical analysis, either generally or in specific context. Using the tools of formal logic, set theory, and algebra, we propose a language for defining social forms that is suÆciently general to in...

Social choice theory provides insights into a variety of collective decision making settings, but nowadays some of its tenets are challenged by Internet environments, which call for dynamic decision making under constantly changing preferences. In this paper we model the problem via Markov decision processes (MDP), where the states of the MDP coincide with preference profiles and a (determinist...