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- Title
Social Perception in the Volunteer's Dilemma: Role of Choice, Outcome, and Expectation.
- Authors
Heck, Patrick R.; Krueger, Joachim I.
- Abstract
The volunteer's dilemma (VoD) is a challenging interpersonal situation in which one person must bear a cost for the benefit of the group. If no one volunteers, all suffer. Research shows that many individuals are willing to volunteer, but little is known about the impressions volunteers and defectors make on social perceivers. In three studies, we find that observers judge volunteers to be more competent and more moral than defectors. The outcome of the dilemma, as co-determined by the other person's decision, and the target person's expectations regarding the other's decision systematically affect judgments of competence but have little effect on judgments of morality. Observers' own preferences to volunteer versus defect influence their judgments of targets consistent with well-known egocentric biases. Taken together, these findings reveal normative social pressures on the potential volunteer, thereby indicating the insufficiency of the conventional game-theoretic analysis.
- Subjects
SOCIAL perception; DILEMMA; LIKES &; dislikes; SOCIAL pressure; JUDGMENT (Psychology); GAME-theoretical semantics
- Publication
Social Cognition, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 5, p497
- ISSN
0278-016X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/soco.2017.35.5.497