Money and co-operation

[Young Master Smeet]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23623157

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But within small groups a team found that introducing an incentive makes people less likely to share than they did before. In essence, even an artificial currency reduced their natural generosity.

Although the same study found in large groups, tokens did help co-operation.  this is interesting in two ways, because, firstly, it shows how co-operation within a team is not financial.  Also, it shows that the tokens do not need to be circulating commodity currency, but perhaps we could co-ordinate with other token games between wider sections of society.

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