Akiko understands that if she doesn't recycle, there will be negative consequences for the environment at some point in the distant future
But she just doesn't have time to take her cans and bottles across town to the recycling plant this week, so she dumps them in the trash. Akiko is experiencing
A) classical conditioning.
B) tragedy of the commons.
C) a public goods dilemma.
D) a social trap.
Answer: D
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