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The Effects of Communication and Commitment in a Public Goods Social Dilemma
Xiao-Ping Chen,S.S. Komorita +1 more
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In this paper, the authors show that if members are allowed to make a pledge prior to their actual decision, they can communicate their intentions and hence increase the cooperation rate, while the degree of commitment required in the pledge differentially affects the cooperation.About:
This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.The article was published on 1994-12-01. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pledge & Social dilemma.read more
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The Drama of the Commons
TL;DR: The drama of the commons has been studied extensively in the literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the role of individuals in the drama of commons management and their roles in the commons.
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How can Cooperation be Fostered? The Cultural Effects of Individualism-Collectivism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a culturally contingent model of cooperation and derived patterned differences in the instrumental and expressive motives of individualists and collectivists and proposed six culturally contrasting cooperation mechanisms.
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Communication and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas: A Meta-Analytic Review
TL;DR: Among the most researched solutions to social dilemmas is communication as discussed by the authors, and it has been well known that communication enhances cooperation in social dilemma problems. But it has not yet been proven that it enhances cooperation.
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Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes
Michael A. Hogg,R. Scott Tindale +1 more
TL;DR: The xreferplus handbook as mentioned in this paper provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes including group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion and mood, computer-mediated communication, organizations and mental health.
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Achieving Cooperation in Multiparty Alliances: a Social Dilemma Approach to Partnership Management
Ming Zeng,Xiao-Ping Chen +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposed a social dilemma approach to cooperation induction in multiparty alliances, where an individually rational but socially defecting choice may lead to a higher payoff for an individual partner but, once all partners adopt such a strategy, the alliance will fail.