Journal article
Retrospection in Social Dilemmas: How Thinking About the Past Affects Future Cooperation
Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.84(5), pp.988-996
05/2003
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/115126
PMID: 12757143
Abstract
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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- Title
- Retrospection in Social Dilemmas
- Creators
- Craig D Parks - Department of Psychology, Washington State UniversityLawrence J Sanna - Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDonelle C Posey - Department of Psychology, Washington State University
- Publication Details
- Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.84(5), pp.988-996
- Academic Unit
- Office of the Provost; Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Identifiers
- 99900548600801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article