* Situtations in which large intragroup issues have conflict between individual’s self-interest and the good of the group as a whole
* Recycling
* Important purpose within groups
* Cut down fewer trees
* Recycle plastic → don’t need to create as much plastic
* Materials won’t be dumped in landfills
* Not pleasant to sort recycling materials from regular materials
* Not fun to bring recycling to certain container
* Individual thought that my individual recycling materials don’t matter that much so just putting it in the landfill won’t make a difference
* If a ton of people have this view ^, it’s problematic
* Recycling isn’t effective
* Beltway
* In big cities, there’s often a beltway, high highway that goes around the edges of the city, which is a common commuter place
* Often carpool lanes
* People with 2+ people in car can go in carpool lanes
* carpool → more carpools → less pollution
* Self-interest: traffic is backed up in regular lanes but carpool lanes are moving quickly
* You’re alone in car but want to get there fast so you go in carpool lane
* If a lot of people ignore carpool lane rules, there is no purpose to the carpool lane
* It would also get backed up if everyone ignored rules
* Hopkins
* Ames Hall → Hodson Hall
* Path to left to get to Hodson, path to right to get to Hodson, and path straight through grass to get to Hodson
* Grass is pretty and green
* Do i want to go around grass area or maximize own self-interst and walk through grass area?
* Too many people walk through grass every semester and there’s a brown, muddy, ugly path through grass by end of semester
* think too hot to handle