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Scaling of Prosocial Behavior in Cities.

Samuel Arbesman¹, Nicholas A Christakis

¹Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.

Physica A

|May 29, 2012

Summary

Prosocial behaviors like voting and organ donation do not scale uniformly with city population, unlike innovation or crime. This suggests distinct interaction types influence different prosocial behaviors in urban environments.

Area of Science:

Urban studies
Sociology
Behavioral economics

Background:

Previous research indicates that behaviors like innovation, productivity, and crime exhibit superlinear scaling with city population.
Superlinear scaling means these behaviors increase per capita as city size grows.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the scaling patterns of various prosocial behaviors (e.g., voting, organ donation) in relation to city population size.
To determine if prosocial behaviors, like other behaviors, follow a unified scaling pattern.

Main Methods:

Analysis of diverse prosocial behaviors across different city populations.
Comparison of observed scaling patterns against established models of urban scaling.

Main Results:

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Prosocial behaviors do not exhibit a unified scaling pattern with city population.
Unlike innovation and criminal behavior, prosocial behaviors show varied scaling, indicating heterogeneity.

Conclusions:

The scaling of prosocial behaviors is not uniform and differs from productivity and crime.
Distinct interaction dynamics underlying different prosocial behaviors likely explain their varied scaling in urban settings.