The Future of Social Experimenting
Dirk Helbing, Wenjian Yu
TL;DR
This paper discusses how recent experiments on human behavior in social dilemmas reveal challenges in fostering cooperation, highlighting the need for new theories and experiments to understand social science puzzles.
Contribution
It emphasizes the importance of combining theoretical and experimental approaches to better understand social cooperation and its barriers.
Findings
Exploratory behavior hinders cooperation in spatial prisoner's dilemma
Recent experiments reveal limitations of neighborhood interactions in promoting cooperation
Calls for new research directions in social science experiments
Abstract
Recent lab experiments by Traulsen et al. for the spatial prisoner's dilemma suggest that exploratory behavior of human subjects prevents cooperation through neighborhood interactions over experimentally accessible time spans. This indicates that new theoretical and experimental efforts are needed to explore the mechanisms underlying a number of famous puzzles in the social sciences.
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