Behavioral Patterns in the frame of Collective Risks Dilemmas with Inequality

Abstract

How the degree of inequality affects the global patterns people follow when they have to collectively mitigate the threads of air pollution is the main topic of this study. We propose an alternative method to analyse the differences in the global behavioral patterns using experimental data from the xAire citizen science project which included two frames differentiated by the unequal distribution of resources. The method has been shown useful and we found that the degree of inequality does not determine the composition of population according behavioral patterns. Moreover, more than 50% of the people based their actions on what others people’s already decided in such context thus following a moody and adaptive behaviour