2) Cooperation, Justice & Fairness

Question 1

State Positive/Negative Affect

Answer 1

Pehnomological condition of a feeling:
Experience of feelings such as enthuasism, alert, energetic
OR
Anger, guilt, fear, nervousness and subjective stress

Question 2

Trait positive/negative Affect

Answer 2

Individual predisposition to experience spec. states across time and situations
Tendency to experience positive emotions
OR
Tendency to experience negative feelings and have a negative self and worldview

–> Correlations with distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice

Question 3

Affect-as-information model

Answer 3

Using affect as a heuristic, substituting feelings for objective criteria when making social judgments

Question 4

Trait affect influences justice perceptions how?

Answer 4

Since Trait affect is stable trhough time and situation, it influences through three mechanisms:

1) Perception formation: Negative mindset leads to seeing the world in a negative way
2) Differential reactivity: Stronger reaction to (un)just treatment

3) Exposure to environmental events:
Affects the probability of encountering environmental stimuli

Question 5

Complementary and substitute Strategies

Answer 5

Strategies (or goods) are substitutes if agents have an incentive to do the opposite of what others are doing

They are complementary if they have an incentive to match the strategy of others

Question 6

What processes constitute the Whistle Blower Dilemma?

Answer 6

Dilemma between loyalty (towards wrongdoer) and fairness

• Less likely to blow the whistle when socially close to whistleblower
• To promote whistleblowing: promote loyalty to society

Question 7

How does the social environment influence the decision speed?

Answer 7

• Dual processes: Process is intuitive when there is no decision conflict
• Reciprocal Decision occur more quickly (than cooperative decision) in cooperative environments
• Defection is faster in non-cooperative environments