Author/Authors :
KÜÇÜKŞENEL, Serkan Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İktisat Bölümü, Turkey , URHAN, Ü. Barış Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İktisat Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
THE BYSTANDERS’ EFFECT: A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO ONE SOCIAL DILEMMA SITUATION
Abstract :
In social psychology, the bystander effect, defined as a social dilemma, is related to the probability of help to a victim by the mere presence of others. This dilemma has been generally assumed, by game theoreticians and experimental economists, to represent the same social phenomenon as the volunteer’s dilemma. In this paper, we analyze these two different social dilemmas and the main question of the article is whether these two different social dilemmas represent the same social state. We first provide a broad literature review, and discuss the game theoretical foundation of the volunteer’s dilemma. Then, we provide an alternative theoretical explanation for the bystander effect and discuss the differences between these two social states.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Behavioral Economics , Bystander Effect , Volunteer s Dilemma , Altruism , Social Dilemma.
JournalTitle :
dokuz eylul university the journal of graduate school of social sciences
