RT Journal Article
T1 Global Information and Mobility Support Coordination Among Humans
A1 Antonioni, Alberto
A1 Sánchez, Angel
A1 Tomassini, Marco
AB Coordination among different options is key for a functioning and efficient society. However, often coordination failures arise, resulting in serious problems both at the individual and the societal level. An additional factor intervening in the coordination process is individual mobility, which takes place at all scales in our world, and whose effect on coordination is not well known. In this experimental work we study the behavior of people who play a pure coordination game in a spatial environment in which they can move around and when changing convention is costly. We find that each convention forms homogeneous clusters and is adopted by approximately half of the individuals. When we provide them with global information, i.e., the number of subjects currently adopting one of the conventions, global consensus is reached in most, but not all, cases. Our results allow us to extract the heuristics used by the participants and to build a numerical simulation model that agrees very well with the experiments. Our findings have important implications for policymakers intending to promote specific, desired behaviors in a mobile population.
PB Macmillan
SN 2045-2322
YR 2014
FD 2014-09-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21449
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21449
LA eng
NO This work was financial supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation(under grant n. 200020-143224) and by the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities(under grant n. 26058983). This work has been supported in part by Ministerio deEconomıía y Competitividad (Spain) through grant PRODIEVO.
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