Social Values and Rules of Fairness: A Theoretical Perspective

McClintock, Charles G.; Avermaet, Eddy Van

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-210820-4.50008-3

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“…Deutsch, 1982;Liebrand et al, 1986a;McClintock & Van Avermaet, 1982). This finding is consistent with one prediction based upon the Might over Morality hypothesis, and supports the idea that morality may play an important role in their perceptions of cooperation and noncooperation (e.g.…”

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The Influence of Other's Morality and Own Social Value Orientation on Cooperation in The Netherlands and the U.S.A.

Lange

Liebrand

1991

Int J Psychol

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The present study examines a two‐person social dilemma characterised by the conflict between the pursuit of own benefits and collective benefits. The main purpose is twofold: (1) to examine the effect of perceptions of one person's morality (e.g. honesty) on expected cooperation from another and own cooperation, and (2) to examine whether pre‐existing differences between individuals in their social value orientation, or preferences for certain patterns of outcomes to self and others (McClintock, 1978), would modify these effects of other's morality. As predicted on the basis of the Might over Morality hypothesis (Liebrand, Jansen et al., 1986), it was found that considerably more cooperation was expected from one perceived as highly moral than from another perceived as low on morality. Contrary to a second Might over Morality prediction, however, this effect was not moderated by individual differences in social value orientation. In addition, it was found that subjects with pro‐social value orientations, as well as those with individualistic and competitive orientations cooperated considerably more with a person perceived as highly moral than with another perceived as low on morality. This latter finding extends previous work on social value orientation in that it suggests that individuals who are predisposed to choose noncooperatively in social dilemmas are willing to cooperate if they are quite confident that the other has truly cooperative and good intentions. Finally, the aforementioned findings were observed in two experiments, one conducted in The Netherlands, the other in the United States. This supports the cross‐cultural generalisability of the present findings.

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The Influence of Other's Morality and Own Social Value Orientation on Cooperation in The Netherlands and the U.S.A.

Lange

Liebrand

1991

Int J Psychol

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“…u(x, y ) = ax + by (1) in which x represents own payoff, y the other person's payoff, and u the utility function (Wyer, 1969(Wyer, , 1971Griesinger and Livingston, 1973;MacCrimmon and Messick, 1976;McClintock and van Avermaet, 1982;Grzelak, 1982;Liebrand, 1984;Knight and Dubro, 1984;Schulz and May, 1987). The algebraic signs and the relations of the weights a and b contain the information of the social orientations.…”

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“…In most studies, social orientations are investigated in dyadic settings using pairs of monetary payoffs as stimuli. The majority of social orientations discussed in the literature can be described with the linear utility function: u(x, y ) = ax + by (1) in which x represents own payoff, y the other person's payoff, and u the utility function (Wyer, 1969(Wyer, , 1971Griesinger and Livingston, 1973;MacCrimmon and Messick, 1976;McClintock and van Avermaet, 1982;Grzelak, 1982;Liebrand, 1984;Knight and Dubro, 1984;Schulz and May, 1987). The algebraic signs and the relations of the weights a and b contain the information of the social orientations.…”

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The recoding of social orientations with ranking and pair comparison procedures

Schulz

May

1989

Euro J Social Psych

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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAME OF SOCIAL ORIENTATIONSA number of social-psychological investigations into decisions in situations of social interdependence have been carried out with simple experimental games. Kelley and Thibaut (1978) have shown that persons in such situations possibly do not base their decisions on the objective features of the situation. It is far more the subjective cognitive representation of the situation that is used for the decisions. Kelley and Thibaut (1978) stress the importance of the subjective transformation of the given payoff matrix of the game. Not only own payoffs are evaluated, but also the payoffs for the other partners can be positively or negatively considered. Such subjective evaluations of outcomes have been called social orientations or social motives. *The research reported was supported by the Deutsche Forschunjsgemeinschaft (Schu 543/ I -I).

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“…Several different measurement methods for quantifying variations in SVO across individuals have been developed (for overviews, see McClintock & Van Avermaet, 1982;Au & Kwong, 2004;Murphy & Ackermann, 2011). Although the use of existent measures has produced a wealth of findings even with categorical approaches (see, for instance, De Dreu & Boles, 1998;Kuhlman & Marshello, 1975a, 1975bVan Lange & Visser, 1999), these measures have substantial limitations.…”

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Measuring Social Value Orientation

2011

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Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different motivations when choosing unilaterally among interdependent outcomes. Measuring the magnitude of the concern people have for others, sometimes called Social Value Orientation (SVO), has been an interest of many social scientists for decades and several different measurement methods have been developed so far. Here we introduce a new measure of SVO that has several advantages over existent methods. A detailed description of the new measurement method is presented, along with norming data that provide evidence of its solid psychometric properties. We conclude with a brief discussion of the research streams that would benefit from a more sensitive and higher resolution measure of SVO, and extend an invitation to others to use this new measure which is freely available.

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Social Values and Rules of Fairness: A Theoretical Perspective

Cited by 62 publications

References 25 publications

The Influence of Other's Morality and Own Social Value Orientation on Cooperation in The Netherlands and the U.S.A.

The Influence of Other's Morality and Own Social Value Orientation on Cooperation in The Netherlands and the U.S.A.

The recoding of social orientations with ranking and pair comparison procedures

Measuring Social Value Orientation

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