IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/jocore/v18y1974i4p634-645.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cooperative Behavior in Dyads

Author

Listed:
  • Katherine Garner

    (Department of Psychology New York University)

  • Morton Deutsch

    (Teachers College Columbia University)

Abstract

It was hypothesized that cooperative behavior would decrease over time in an interaction between cooperatively oriented and competitively oriented persons. Pairs of male undergraduates, in which one S was induced to assume a competitive orientation and the other a cooperative one, played thirty trials of a Prisoner's Dilemma game. Three experimental conditions were created by varying the nature of the information each S received about his partner's orientation. A decrease in the amount of cooperative behavior was found only when Ss believed that their (dissimilarly motivated) partner had the same orientation as themselves. When subjects had veridical information about their partner's dissimilar orientation, there was a significant increase in the amount of cooperative behavior over time for both pair members. When Ss had no mformation about their partner's goal orientation, cooperative behavior remained stable over time. The data were discussed in terms of the active versus passive role taken by subjects in transforming interpersonal situations which they confront.

Suggested Citation

  • Katherine Garner & Morton Deutsch, 1974. "Cooperative Behavior in Dyads," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 18(4), pages 634-645, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:18:y:1974:i:4:p:634-645
    DOI: 10.1177/002200277401800405
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002200277401800405
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/002200277401800405?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yuwei Yan & Zhihan Lv & Bin Hu, 2018. "Building investor trust in the P2P lending platform with a focus on Chinese P2P lending platforms," Electronic Commerce Research, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 203-224, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:18:y:1974:i:4:p:634-645. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://pss.la.psu.edu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.