Collaborative Research in Individual and Group Decisions In Voluntary Collective Decision Making

这一建议建立并扩展了先前的理论和实验研究，这些研究与提供公共利益（如公共安全或公园）的利益共享和成本分摊问题有关。一个相关的问题涉及个人自愿的集体行动，当志愿服务或自愿捐款给慈善机构。本研究的理论基础是贝叶斯博弈论均衡模型，在此基础上可以推导出预期行为的预测。基本的实验方法包括在精心控制的实验室环境中使用人类受试者，涉及受试者之间的不完整信息和通信。每个实验对象被要求做出贡献的决定，并被告知实验者将根据他们的贡献决定和其他人的决定给他们多少钱。这些实验探讨了在一系列条件下的个人自愿集体行动，并将提供关于个人在这些实验中使用的不同类型的选择策略的见解。

This proposal builds on and extends prior theory and experimental research related to the problem of sharing benefits and dividing the costs of providing a common good such as public safety or parks. A related question involves individual voluntary collective action when volunteering time or making voluntary contributions to charities. The theoretical foundation of the research rests on bayesian game theoretic equilibrium models on the basis of which predictions of the expected behaviors can be derived. The basic experimental method involves using human subjects in carefully controlled laboratory situations involving incomplete information and communications between subjects. Individual subjects are asked to make decisions about contributing and are informed exactly how much they will be paid by the experimenter, depending upon their contribution decisions and the decisions of others. The experiments explore individual voluntary collective actions under a range of conditions and will provide insights as to the different types of choice strategies which individuals utilize in these experiments.