Social 2 Flashcards
Why is deception used?
For experimental control, efficiency and adventure
What are problems with deception in research?
Goes against honesty, transparency and autonomy - subject pool contamination
Theories of distributive justice (3)
Adam smith - impartial spectator
John Rawls - veil of ignorance, maximin
John C. Harsanyi - impersonality- maximise averages
Greatest equal liberty principle
Equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties
Opportunity principle
Inequalities attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality and opportunity
Difference principle
Greatest benefit to least adavantaged - maximise floor income
Veil of ignorance
Moral reasoning device - slavery - original position
Leaky bucket of equality
Admin costs, less incentive to earn, incentive to hide income
Requirements for best reasonable offers
Own biases, info of one’s position, info of other position, both side’s willingness to be reasonable
Cross-cultural negotiation differences
Voicing disagreement and emotional expression (upgraders and downgraders
Logrolling
Tit for tat
Dangers of assuming
Unrewarded generosity, cannot take items for granted, own interests not addressed
Competition
The act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endevoring to gain at the same time
Cooperation
Act of working together to one end
Rivalry
Struggle for relative and not merely absolute values
How is helpfullness different from cooperation?
The end goal is not mutually sought after, instead the helper is focused on the realtionship.
Individualistic behavior
Seeking one’s own goals without reference to others
Private good
Exludable and rivalry (cheeseburger)
Club good
Excludable and non-rivalry (telephone service)
Common good
Non-excludable and rivalry (library book)
Public good
Non-excludable and non-rivalry (national defence)
Social dilemma
Situations in which individual rationality leads to collective irrationality
3 core social value orientations:
Individualistic, competitive and cooperative (prosocial)
How can a social dilemma be solved?
Punishment - social norms/legak frameworks (quotas)
Reinforcement - interventions/reframing
What is playing a game?
The voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles
What is play?
Free movement within a more rigid structure
Gamification
Use of game design elements in non-game contexts
iframe and sframe
Policy interventions that seek to fix problems with individual behaviour/by addressing the system in which individuals operate
Advantages of research with social games
Interactivity, methodology, flexibility
Challenges of research with social games
Interpretation/practical difficulties
Deutch’s crude law of social relations
Characteristic processes and effects elicited by a given type of social relationship tends to elicit that type of social relationship
