Resolving Social Dilemmas
Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 1999
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-86377-574-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents an accessible and state-of-the-art survey of current research on social dilemmas. A social dilemma arises when actions that are justifiable in terms of individual rationality (e.g. over-harvesting resources, or using private instead of public transportation) threaten the common good and in the long run the individual's own self-interest as well. The study of social dilemmas has important links with many areas in psychology, as well as with cognate disciplines such as risk analysis, environmental science, political science, and economics. Accordingly, the book should appeal not only to psychologists but also to a wider audience of scholars and researchers. Contributors include both established authorities and recent innovators, and the organization and contents of the book reflect the most recent trends in this exciting area. Increased attention is given to modeling dynamics and processes in social dilemmas, and greater emphasis placed on exploring structural solutions to dilemmas. New findings and theoretical developments regarding group and inter-group processes are highlighted and a move is made away from a heavy reliance on laboratory experiments and game theory to field studies and real-world applications. A scholarly prospective chapter at the beginning and an integrative concluding chapter provide useful overviews of the area and the contributions to the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hove
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
929 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86377-574-1 (9780863775741)
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Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects
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Resolving Social Dilemmas
Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects
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Margaret Foddy | Michael Smithson | Sherry Schneider
Resolving Social Dilemmas
Dynamic, Structural, and Intergroup Aspects
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Persons
Sherry Schneider, Margaret Foddy, Michael Smithson, Michael A. Hogg
Content
M. Foddy, M. Smithson, Theories and Strategies for Studying Social Dilemmas. Part I. Formal Models andDynamic Systems Approaches. M. Smithson, Taking Exogenous Dynamics Seriously in Public Goods and Resource Dilemmas. Y. Watanabe, T. Yamagishi, Emergence of Strategies in a Selective Play Environment with Geographic Mobility. E. Takagi, Generalized Exchange and the Emergence of Social Order. A. Rapoport, W. Almadoss, Social Dilemmas Embedded in Between-group Competitions: Effects of Contest and Distribution Rates. W. Au, Sequential Effects in Give-some and Take-some Social Dilemmas. Part II. ControlSystems and Structural Solutions. N. Kerr, Anonymity and Social Control in Social Dilemmas. M. van Vugt, Managing Natural Resource Dilemmas Through Structural Change. A. Franzen, The Volunteer's Dilemma: Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence. S. Suleiman, K. Or-Chen, Providing Step-level Public Goods Under Uncertainty: The Case of Probable External Supply. M. Beckenkamp, Sanctioning as an Ambiguous Structural Solution. Xiao-Ping Chen, Work Team Cooperation: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Reward Allocation Rules. J. Webb, Structural Change Decision-Making in Social Dilemmas: A Preliminary Framework. Part III. Linking Individual and GroupProcesses. D. Messick, Models of Decision Making in Social Dilemmas. T. Garling, A. Biel, M. Gustafsson, Managing Uncertain Common Resources. G. Hertel, Mood Effects in Social Dilemmas. A. Biel, C. von Borgstede, U. Dahlstrand, Norm Perception and Cooperation in Large-scale Social Dilemmas. S. Schneider, J. Sundali, Curbside Recycling: Does it Promote Environmental Responsibility? J. Garvill, Factors Influencing Elementary and Instrumental Cooperation in Choice of Transportation Mode. J. Schopler, C.A. Insko, The Role of Future Consequences in the Reduction of the Interindividual-intergroup Discontinuity Effect. B. Morrison, Interdependence, the Group, and Social Cooperation: A New Look at an Old Problem. M. Foddy, M. Hogg, Leaders and Social Dilemmas: The Intergroup Context. S. Schneider, M. Brewer, Social Dilemmas and Social Evolution.