TY - JOUR
T1 - Social dilemmas
T2 - When self-control benefits cooperation
AU - Martinsson, Peter
AU - Myrseth, Kristian Ove
AU - Wollbrant, Conny
N1 - Date of Acceptance: 21/09/2014
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cooperation
KW - Self-control
KW - Pro-social behavior
KW - Public good experiment
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84911067115
U2 - 10.1016/j.joep.2014.09.004
DO - 10.1016/j.joep.2014.09.004
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-4870
VL - 45
SP - 213
EP - 236
JO - Journal of Economic Psychology
JF - Journal of Economic Psychology
ER -