Tutorial 3 - Article 2 - Social Value Orientation, Expectations, and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas Flashcards
What are social dilemmas?
Situations in which short-term self-interest conflicts with long-term collective interests
What is social value orientation?
The decision maker’s dispositional concern for others’ welfare
What are the 3 categories/types of SVO?
Prosocial, individualistic and competitive
How does SVO shape cooperation?
People’s decision to cooperate or not depends on their SVO (oncern for others’ welfare) and the expectation they have about the others
What are prosocials?
They aim to equalize and/or maximize joint outcomes
What are individualists?
They aim to maximize their own outcomes, regardless of the others’ outcomes
What are competitors?
They aim to maximize the relative difference between their own and the others’ outcome
Who expected significantly more cooperation from others? (Prosocials versus competitors/ individualists)
Prosocials
Was there a significant difference in expected cooperation between individualists and competitors?
No
Did the moderators (payment, target of expectation, iterations, group size, etc.) moderate the relationship between SVO type and expectations of cooperation?
No
Do expectations mediate the SVO-cooperation relation?
There is some proof for partial mediation
Does SVO have an effect on cooperation?
Yes, significant effect.
