Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life.
bystander effect
common knowledge
cooperation
coordination
theory of mind
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
Titre abrégé: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7505876
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 07 2019
09 07 2019
Historique:
pubmed:
30
6
2019
medline:
27
3
2020
entrez:
30
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
People often coordinate for mutual gain, such as keeping to opposite sides of a stairway, dubbing an object or place with a name, or assembling en masse to protest a regime. Because successful coordination requires complementary choices, these opportunities raise the puzzle of how people attain the common knowledge that facilitates coordination, in which a person knows X, knows that the other knows X, knows that the other knows that he knows, ad infinitum. We show that people are highly sensitive to the distinction between common knowledge and mere private or shared knowledge, and that they deploy this distinction strategically in diverse social situations that have the structure of coordination games, including market cooperation, innuendo, bystander intervention, attributions of charitability, self-conscious emotions, and moral condemnation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31253709
pii: 1905518116
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905518116
pmc: PMC6628641
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
13751-13758Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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