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That people do what they do because of what they see in others hardly needs to be said. Nothing is more obvious. Still, the dependence of people on others calls for some analysis. I will show that two levels of dependence can be distinguished. I will go on to suggest that the second level is the one to study, and how this might be done.
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Schick, F. (1978). Toward A Theory of Sociality. In: Hooker, C.A., Leach, J.J., McClennen, E.F. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 13b. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9792-9_7
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