New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas

ISBN-13: 9781441944443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Anders Biel; Daniel Eek; Tommy Garling

Opis

Readers need look no further if they seeking an edited volume compiled to present the latest developments in the field of social dilemma research. Social dilemmas are situations when there is a conflict between self-interest and collective interest. This work examines under what circumstances people make decisions that are in line with the collective interest as well as investigating what can increase the likelihood of cooperation. Three man sections mirror the different levels of analysis: individual, group, and societal.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Part I – Individual Level: 2. Effects of Information Structure in a Step-Level, Public-Good Dilemma under a Real-Time Protocol 3. Towards an Analysis of Cooperation and Fairness that Excludes Concepts of Cooperative Game Theory. 4. How do We React to Feedback in Social Dilemmas? 5. A New Look at the Theory of Social Value Orientations: Prosocials neither Maximize Joint Outcomes nor Minimize Outcome Differences but Prefer Equal Outcomes Part II – Group Level 6. A Classification of Games by Player Type 7. A Recursive Model for Changing Justice Concerns in Social Dilemmas 8. Group-Based Trust and Cooperation in a Sequential Dilemma 9. Effects of Uncertainty in the Give- or Take Some (GOTS) Game Part III – Societal Level 10. Will Lessons from Small-Scale Social Dilemmas Scale Up? 11. The Emergence of Generalized Exchange via Indirect Reciprocity 12. Effectiveness of Coercive and Voluntary Institutional Solutions 13. Sheep, Mouton or Kivsa? Does Culture Influence Cooperation in Social Dilemmas? 14. Resurrecting the Leviathan in Social Dilemma Research 15. Towards a Comprehensive Model of Social Dilemmas 16. Promoting Cooperation in Social Dilemmas via Fairness Norms and Group Goals 17. Using Genetic Algorithms for the Study of Social Dilemmas

Blurb

New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas
Edited by Anders Biel, Daniel Eek, Tommy Garling, and Mathias Gustafson
Psykologiska Instutitionen, Gotenburg University, Gotenburg, Sweden

 

This edited volume has been compiled to present new theoretical and methodological developments in the field of social dilemma research. Social dilemmas are situations when there is a conflict between self-interest and collective interest. Research in this area has gained interest in the last twenty years in disciplines such as sociology, psychology, and economics. It also has wide applications to numerous real-world issues including environmental degradation, organizational management, and provision of societal public good. The three sections in the volume mirror the different levels of analysis in this research: the individual, group, and societal levels.