95556 20210902121722.0 doi 10.1098/rsos.201026 sideral 119661 ART-2020-119661 eng Jusup, M. Behavioural patterns behind the demise of the commons across different cultures 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Common-pool resources require a dose of self-restraint to ensure sustainable exploitation, but this has often proven elusive in practice. To understand why, and characterize behaviours towards ecological systems in general, we devised a social dilemma experiment in which participants gain profit from harvesting a virtual forest vulnerable to overexploitation. Out of 16 Chinese and 15 Spanish player groups, only one group from each country converged to the forest's maximum sustainable yield. All other groups were overzealous, with about half of them surpassing or on the way to surpass a no-recovery threshold. Comp utational-statistical analyses attribute such outcomes to an interplay between three prominent player behaviours, two of which are subject to decision-making "inertia" that causes near blindness to the resource state. These behaviours, being equally pervasive among players from both nations, imply that the commons fall victim to behavioural patterns robust to confounding factors such as age, education and culture. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/UZ-I-2015-022-PIP info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/640772/EU/Distributed Global Financial Systems for Society/DOLFINS This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 640772-DOLFINS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/662725/EU/Bridging the gap: from Individual Behaviour to the Socio-tEchnical MaN/IBSEN This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 662725-IBSEN info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FIS2017-87519-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 2.963 2020 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 28 / 73 = 0.384 2020 Q2 T2 0.84 2020 Multidisciplinary 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Maciel-Cardoso, F. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-2789-9250 Gracia-Lazaro, C. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-9769-8796 Liu, C. Wang, Z. Moreno, Y. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-0895-1893 2004 405 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Teórica Área Física Teórica 7, 7 (2020), 201026 [11 pp] R. Soc. open sci. Royal Society Open Science 2054-5703 931599 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95556/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 49622 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95556/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:95556 articulos driver 2021-09-02-09:29:24 ARTICLE