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Social dilemmas : When self-control benefits cooperation

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Date
12/2014
Author
Martinsson, Peter
Myrseth, Kristian Ove
Wollbrant, Conny
Keywords
Cooperation
Self-control
Pro-social behavior
Public good experiment
HB Economic Theory
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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.
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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
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2014.09.004
ISSN
0167-4870
Type
Journal article
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© 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/
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Date of Acceptance: 21/09/2014
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8619

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