Mark van Vugt: Information, Identity, Institutions and Incentives | NewScientist

From the article, "Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share" (hat tip: onthecommons.org):

Putting all this together, I have identified four key conditions for the successful management of shared environmental resources: information, identity, institutions and incentives. (Current Directions in Psychological Science, pdf). I believe we can and should use this 4i framework as the basis for a plan of action to combat local and global environmental catastrophe.

Information, identity, institutions and incentives correspond to what most psychologists believe are the four core motives that influence our decision-making in social dilemmas, respectively understanding, belonging, trusting and self-enhancing.

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