Retrospection in social dilemmas: How thinking about the past affects future cooperation

被引:19
作者
Parks, CD
Sanna, LJ
Posey, DC
机构
[1] Washington State Univ, Dept Psychol, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[2] Univ N Carolina, Dept Psychol, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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10.1037/0022-3514.84.5.988
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
This article reports 2 studies investigating the effects of retrospective thought on future cooperation in social dilemmas. Some general theories of cooperation presume, but have not tested, whether retrospection has impact: People may think about the choices they could have made instead, realize that cooperation would have produced larger outcomes, and change their strategy as a result. Across both studies, the authors show that rate of future cooperation is directly related to the number of best-case scenarios and inversely related to the number of worst-case scenarios generated. The 2nd study also shows that the number and type of retrospective thoughts generated can be predicted from the person's social value orientation.
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页码:988 / 996
页数:9
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