Arbeitspapier

Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives. Different motives may be activated by different social settings. Inter-individual differences in dispositional types affect the responsiveness of people's motives to their social settings. The evolution of these dispositional types is driven by changes in the frequencies of social settings. In this context, economic policies can influence economic decisions not merely by modifying incentives operating through given preferences, but also by influencing people's motives (thereby changing their preferences) and by changing the distribution of dispositional types in the population (thereby changing their motivational responsiveness to social settings).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9703

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Relation of Economics to Social Values
Noncooperative Games
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Externalities
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Thema
motivation
reflexivity
cooperation
social dilemma
endogenous preferences
dispositions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bosworth, Steven J.
Singer, Tania
Snower, Dennis J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bosworth, Steven J.
  • Singer, Tania
  • Snower, Dennis J.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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