article: why hate the good guy? Flashcards
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relevance of the article
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- deals with competitive behavior in cooperation
- aims to underline the different strategies used in cooperation to get chosen by a social partner
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background info
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- choice of social partner is influenced by their level cooperation
- to attract partners ourselves, we either:
- increase our own cooperation
- or decrease other’s cooperation
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moralistic punishment
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for non cooperative individuals
-by cooperative individuals
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antisocial punishment
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- for highly cooperative individuals
- by lower cooperators
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do gooder derogation
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- for high cooperative/helping people
- by lower cooperators
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why do we punish good cooperators?
theory of normative conformity
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-punishment for norm-deviators
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why do we punish good cooperators?
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- biological-market theory (barclay)
- we favor most benefiting partners for cooperative interaction
- punishment for high cooperators
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methods
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- 117 canadian university students
- public goods game
- 2 conditions:
- experimental condition: biological markets , PGG included an observer , trust game
-control condition
- post experimental survey
- competition vs cooperation?
- 6 items of the cooperative and competitive personality scale
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findings
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- average moralistic punishment
- average antisocial punishment
- average contribution (out of 10)
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post - experimental survey
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conclusion
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- antisocial punishment can be used by low cooperators to avoid a ‘bad’ reputation by comparison to high cooperators
- antisocial punishment is especially high in situations involving competition or inequality
- the study results are applicable to any social dilemma or cooperative situation
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limitations
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- laboratory study
- in real world, punishment is used in a subtle and indirect manner
