While previous research has revealed several reasons why humans generally do good deeds, we explore a simple nudge that might get more of them done: the maybe favor. We first show conceptually that, compared to conventional favor, are willing grant favor stranger on which they eventually not have make good. Furthermore, conducted series fully incentivized experiments (total N = 3,475) where par...

Amide-iminol tautomerism was studied for ionized oxamic acid (OA+•) in the gas phase using theDFT method with the UB3LYP functional and various basis sets {6-31++G(d,p), 6-311+G(d,p), and augcc-pVDZ}. Among twenty tautomers-rotamers possible for OA+•, eleven isomers were found to bethermodynamically stable. Similarly as for the neutral molecule, ionization (OA → OA+• + e) favors theamidization ...

Multiagent systems often require coordination among the agents to maximize system utility. Using the notion of favors, we propose a technique, flexible reciprocal altruism, which determines when one agent should grant a favor to another agent based on past interactions. The desired rate of altruism is controllable, and as a result the loss associated with granting unmatched favors is bounded an...