Social trap
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Social trap is a term used by psychologists to describe a situation in which a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole. Examples of social traps include overfishing, energy "brownout" and "blackout" power outages during periods of extreme temperatures, the overgrazing of cattle on the Sahelian Desert, and the destruction of the rainforest by logging interests and agriculture.
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See also
- Braess's paradox
- Externality
- Malthusian trap
- Overexploitation
- Overfishing
- Overgrazing
- Paradox of thrift
- Social dilemma
- Tragedy of the commons
- Trigger strategy
- Tyranny of small decisions
- War of attrition
- Welfare trap
- Zero-sum
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