Social dilemmas : When self-control benefits cooperation
Abstract
Individuals in a social dilemma may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Pairing a public goods game with a subtle framing technique, we test whether perception of self-control conflict strengthens the association between self-control and cooperation. Consistent with our hypothesis, cooperative behavior is positively associated with self-control in the treatment that raised the relative likelihood of perceiving conflict, but not associated with self-control in the treatment that lowered the likelihood. Our results indicate that self-control benefits cooperation.
Citation
Martinsson , P , Myrseth , K O & Wollbrant , C 2014 , ' Social dilemmas : When self-control benefits cooperation ' , Journal of Economic Psychology , vol. 45 , pp. 213-236 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2014.09.004
Publication
Journal of Economic Psychology
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0167-4870Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2015, Elsevier. This is an author version of this article, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description
Date of Acceptance: 21/09/2014Collections
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