Chapter 12 The End

Finally it is the last chapter of this book.

12.1 Final Conclusion

At the end of this research story, I just want to give some take home messages to this book’s readers and future myself:

The research question we asked at the beginning:

  1. Will people with various levels of social intelligence and general intelligence behave differently in this collective game?
  2. How will people behave when they are in negative condition?

Going through all these MSA methods, my final answers of the two questions are

    1. When global environment situation is challenging and complex (negative), higher social and general intelligence are necessary for groups to effectively learn and respond as a team to changing circumstances to achieve sustainability goals;
    1. People in negative situations will have motivation from help and trust to do the collective behavior.

In my previous analysis, which includes positive situation for comparison, I also found out that people in positive condition will have different motivation, like the self-attitude, to do collective behavior. It is interesting and meaningful because I can know what’s is the optimized cognitive strategy when facing resource sufficiency and resource shortage. After submitting my final project for RM3, I will keep undating this book and include positive condition for comparison.

12.2 Appreciation

Thanks for reading this book. Also, I want to express the highest level of appreciation to Dr. Abid, Yu-chi, Luke and Brandon’s generous support and assistance during the class. As I said in the preface, it is the most useful and challenging class I have ever had as student. I am glad I survive and have this book now. Before this semester, I knew nothing about R programming but now I believe I am capable to do more developing job and apply it to my own research projects. I also want to appreciate myself for working hard and balancing time for PhD application, moving, research projects and writing this book. It is really a tough period for me but I am glad I survive.

I know it is not a perfect book now but I am sure that it will get better in future. At last, hope everyone enjoys this book!