Communication Networks and Social Dilemmas

沟通网络和社会困境

• 批准号: 8711781
• 负责人: Phillip Bonacich
• 金额: $ 7.15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-07-15 至 1990-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8711781&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Communication; Networks; Social; Dilemmas

When individuals in a group have incentives to hoard information, the group may be less effective in achieving its goals. Mixed motives both to communicate and accumulate information create a "social dilemma" in which group and individual goals are in conflict. This project consists of a series of laboratory experiments designed to examine the ways in which communication patterns in networks are distorted by incentives to save information. The experiments will test the hypothesis that the vulnerability of communication networks to this type of conflict is a function of the distribution of information. Networks should be more vulnerable when they have potentially competing centers and less vulnerable when there is either one clearly central position or the network is widely decentralized. The contribution of the work will be to unite social psychological approaches to social dilemmas with sociological work on social networks.

当一个群体中的个人有囤积信息的动机时，这个群体实现其目标的效率可能会降低。交流和积累信息的混合动机造成了一种“社会困境”，在这种困境中，群体和个人的目标相互冲突。这个项目由一系列的实验室实验组成，旨在研究网络中的通信模式是如何被保存信息的动机扭曲的。这些实验将检验一个假设，即通信网络对这类冲突的脆弱性是信息分布的一个函数。当网络有潜在的竞争中心时，网络应该更容易受到攻击，当有一个明确的中心位置或网络广泛分散时，网络应该不那么容易受到攻击。这项工作的贡献将是将社会心理学方法与社会网络的社会学工作结合起来。