IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-3-030-98179-2_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Cooperators Are Faster but Not More Accurate in Social Exchange Decisions Compared to Defectors

In: Advances in Quantitative Economic Research

Author

Listed:
  • Adam Karbowski

    (SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

  • Jerzy Osiński

    (University of Warsaw)

  • Bartłomiej Wiśnicki

    (SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

Abstract

In this study, we focus on decision-making in social exchange. In particular, we test the effectiveness (measured by speed and accuracy of decisions) of the decision-making in social exchange. Experimental results show that persons who cooperate in a prisoner’s dilemma game (cooperators) are faster but not more accurate at solving the social contract version of the Wason selection task compared to persons selecting in a prisoner’s dilemma game a defection strategy (defectors). Differences between cooperators and defectors in speed or accuracy of decision-making have not been observed in the abstract version of the Wason selection task. The obtained results provide empirical support to the claim that the social exchange heuristic works as an optimizing tool of the human mind.

Suggested Citation

  • Adam Karbowski & Jerzy Osiński & Bartłomiej Wiśnicki, 2022. "Cooperators Are Faster but Not More Accurate in Social Exchange Decisions Compared to Defectors," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Nicholas Tsounis & Aspasia Vlachvei (ed.), Advances in Quantitative Economic Research, chapter 0, pages 1-13, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-98179-2_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98179-2_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    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:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-98179-2_1. 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: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    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.