Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Arbeitspapier

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 inuence 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).

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5763

Klassifikation und Themen

• 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

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bosworth, Steven J. ; Singer, Tania ; Snower, Dennis J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/128466
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ