Coordination rules in asymmetric social dilemmas: a comparison between Public Good Dilemmas and Resource Dilemmas
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Three experiments conducted to study the coordination rules followed by a four-person group facing Public Good Dilemma and Resource Dilemma revealed that equal final outcomes rule determined the coordinating behavior of those facing a Resource Dilemma. Proportional outcomes rule determined behavior those facing the Public Good Dilemma. The subjects in a disadvantaged position increased their share in the Public Good Dilemma more than in the Resource Dilemma. Those with increased resources cooperated in the Resource Dilemma more than in the Public Good Dilemma.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1995
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Differential interest, equity, and public good provision
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An experiment was cnducted to investigate the effects of varying degrees of interests on public-good provision. Subjects were assigned to either a high-interest or a low-interest position. This difference in interest levels was either justified or not justified. Results showed that subjects seeked to distribute benefits and contributions proportionally in the unjustified conditions. These results indicate that people are also concerned with fairness in group settings and not just with their personal interests particularly when the asymmetry is unjustified.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1993
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What information do we use in social dilemmas? Environmental uncertainty and the employment of coordination rules
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Humans use fairness norms as the basis for coordinating choice behavior when they face social dilemmas. A bi-directional approach was used to examine how people deal with environmental uncertainty in social dilemmas and how they use coordination rules under such situations. The dominant view on this issue is that environmental uncertainty leads to defection. However, results of the correlations between fair choice behavior and actual decisions suggested that coordination of choice behavior is affected by environmental uncertainty.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1999
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