Theories about pure social coordination with experimental evidence from Slovenia

Ule, Aljaž (author)

The article presents a discussion of the results of laboratory experiments on social coordination that allowed various forms of reasoning to be used. The experiments were conducted in the TIG laboratory at the University of Primorska. We investigate the type of reasoning the participants used while making decisions in the laboratory. In particular, two contemporary theories of coordination are tested, the first describing a team-oriented and the second an individual-oriented type of thinking. T he participants’ coordination behaviour shows that young people hold the potential to develop both some form of cooperative reasoning and a more individualistic, boundedly rational focus on their own success, such as referred to in cognitive hierarchy theory. Instead of team reasoning, we f ind evidence in support for a simpler, albeit less profitable odd-one-out heuristic.

• Language: English
• Keywords: coordination problems, team reasoning, individual-oriented reasoning, bounded rationality, experimental decision-making
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Geographic coverage: Slovenija
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 299-314
• Numbering: Letn. 62, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-171081
• UDC: 32
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.62.2.299
• COBISS.SI-ID: 244351235
• Publication date in RUL: 01.08.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Teorije o čisti družbeni koordinaciji z eksperimentalnimi dokazi iz Slovenije

Abstract

Članek predstavlja razpravo o rezultatih laboratorijskih eksperimentov o družbeni koordinaciji, ki omogočajo različne oblike mišljenja in so bili izvedeni v laboratoriju TIG Univerze na Primorskem. Raziskuje, kakšno vrsto mišljenja uporabljajo udeleženci v naših eksperimentalnih situacijah odločanja. Ob tem primerjam predvsem dve sodobni teoriji koordinacije, od katerih ena opisuje timsko, druga pa individualno usmerjeno vrsto razmišljanja. Koordinirano vedenje udeležencev v poskusu kaže, da imajo mladi potencial za razvijanje tako sodelovalnega sklepanja kot tudi bolj individualistično, omejeno racionalno naravnanost, usmerjeno v lasten uspeh – kot jo opisuje teorija kognitivnih hierarhij. Namesto timskega mišljenja se udeleženci poslužujejo enostavnejše, a manj dobičkonosne izbire opcije, ki ne sodi med ostale.

• Keywords: problemi usklajevanja, usklajevanja, timsko mišljenje, individualno usmerjeno mišljenje, omejena racionalnost, eksperimentalno odločanje

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J7-6828
• Name: Omejena racionalnost in ekonomska uspešnost

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P1-0285
• Name: Algebra, diskretna matematika, verjetnostni račun in teorija iger