Preferences, self-interest & morality: economics & ethics lesson plan: Difference between revisions

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* small groups, 150 people have constraint on each other's behaviors
* small groups, 150 people have constraint on each other's behaviors
** known as Dunbar's number:
*** Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Dunbar's number (wiki)]]
* larger groups do not, the sociopath can hide among 1 million people
* larger groups do not, the sociopath can hide among 1 million people