Chapter 21 - Cooperation Flashcards
Altruism
A desire to improve the welfare of another person, at a potential cost to the self and without any expectation of reward.
Common-pool resource
A collective product or service that is freely available to all individuals of a society, but is vulnerable to overuse and degradation.
Commons dilemma game
A game in which members of a group must balance their desire for personal gain against the deterioration and possible collapse of a resource.
Cooperation
The coordination of multiple partners toward a common goal that will benefit everyone involved.
Decomposed games
A task in which an individual chooses from multiple allocations of resources to distribute between him- or herself and another person.
Empathy
The ability to vicariously experience the emotions of another person.
Free rider problem
A situation in which one or more individuals benefit from a common-pool resource without paying their share of the cost.
Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity
The tendency for relations between groups to be less cooperative than relations between individuals.
Outgroup
A social category or group with which an individual does not identify.
Prisoner’s dilemma
A classic paradox in which two individuals must independently choose between defection (maximizing reward to the self) and cooperation (maximizing reward to the group).
Rational self-interest
The principle that people will make logical decisions based on maximizing their own gains and benefits.
Social identity
A person’s sense of who they are, based on their group membership(s).
Social value orientation (SVO)
An assessment of how an individual prefers to allocate resources between him- or herself and another person.
State of vulnerability
When a person places him or herself in a position in which he or she might be exploited or harmed. This is often done out of trust that others will not exploit the vulnerability.
Ultimatum game
An economic game in which a proposer (Player A) can offer a subset of resources to a responder (Player B), who can then either accept or reject the given proposal.
