Social dilemmas: When self-control benefits cooperation |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Box 640, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden;2. School of Management, University of St Andrews, The Gateway, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9RJ Scotland, UK;1. Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK;2. Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, United States;1. Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, 00183 Warsaw, Poland;2. Centre for Economic Psychology and Decision Sciences, Kozminski University, Jagiellonska 57, 03301Warsaw, Poland |
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| Abstract: | Individuals in a social dilemma may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and their 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. These results indicate that it is important to understand the role of self-control in cooperation. |
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| Keywords: | Cooperation Self-control Pro-social behavior Public good experiment |
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