Psychological Science ›› 2014, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 962-967.

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Value Orientation and Social Distance Influenced Cooperation and Aggression in Decision-making: Evidences from Chicken Game

  

  • Received:2013-03-28 Revised:2014-03-11 Online:2014-07-20 Published:2014-07-20

价值取向与社会距离影响经济决策的合作与冲突行为:Chicken Game的证据

袁博1,张振2,沈英伦2,黄亮2,李颖2,王益文3   

  1. 1. 宁波大学心理学系
    2. 天津师范大学心理与行为研究院
    3. 天津师范大学
  • 通讯作者: 王益文

Abstract: Previous studies employing the social game tasks have demonstrated that human cooperation and aggression behavior were affected by the individual’s social value orientation, however the effect size of this impact was relatively low and was not stable. According to the behavioral dynamics view, our behavior was impacted by interaction of personality and social situation. Social distance is a kind of social situation, and was proved to affect our social cognition and behavior. However, it is still unclear how cooperation and aggression was modulated by social value orientation and social distance. In order to address this issue, we use the Chicken game to explore how social value orientation and social distance interactively impacted our social game behavior in the present study. Different social value orientation (Prosocial VS Proself) subjects were recruit, and were arranged to play the Chicken game with their friend and a stranger (lab assistants) through the networked computer. The percentage of selecting cooperation was entered into a 2 (SVO: Prosocial, Proself) ×2 (Social distance: Friend, Stranger) ANOVA test. The results indicated that the main effect of social distance was significant, that is, participant selected more cooperation to friend than to stranger. More important, there was significant interaction effect between SVO and Social distance. Test of the simple effect show that only Prosocial participants selected more cooperation to friend than to stranger, the cooperative percentage was not differ in Proself participants. The mean response time (RT) of selecting cooperation and aggression were entered into a 2 (SVO: Prosocial, Proself) ×2 (Social distance: Friend, Stranger)×2 (Selection strategy: Cooperation, Aggression) ANOVA test. There was significant interaction effect between SVO and Selection strategy, indicating that the mean RT of selecting cooperation was longer than the mean RT of selecting aggression in Prosocial participants, but not in Proself participants. In addition, for investigating the potential influence of outcome feedback to ongoing decision-making, we calculated the ratio of selecting cooperation and aggression associated with each kind of outcome. The result indicated that the feedback type affected the cooperation and aggression behavior, participant was more likely to select cooperation when the feedback indicating the opponent selected cooperation. In conclusion, the result of this study support that the human cooperation and aggression behavior were not simply influenced by social value orientation, probably were modulated by the interaction of social value orientation and other social situation, such as social distance.

Key words: social value orientation, social distance, cooperation, conflict, Chicken game

摘要: 采用Chicken Game博弈任务,考察了不同社会价值取向个体(亲社会者与亲自我者)在面对不同社会距离的博弈对手(朋友和陌生人)时表现出的合作与冲突行为。研究结果发现:(1)社会价值取向与社会距离交互影响个体的合作与冲突行为;(2)社会价值取向影响选择策略的反应时,亲社会者选择合作的反应时长于选择冲突的反应时,亲自我者选择合作与选择冲突的反应时没有显著差异;(3)无论对亲社会者还是亲自我者,反馈类型都显著影响个体的合作与冲突行为的选择率以及随后决策的反应时。上述结果表明,个体的合作或冲突行为,并非单一地受到社会价值取向的影响,更可能是受到个人因素(社会价值取向)与其他社会因素(比如,社会距离)的共同调节,并且在这一过程中个体会根据决策后反馈信息不断的调整自己的行为策略。

关键词: 社会价值取向, 社会距离, 合作, 冲突, 博弈