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Value priorities, social value orientations and cooperation in social dilemmas
Author(s) -
Gärling Tommy
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1348/014466699164239
Subject(s) - universalism , prosocial behavior , value (mathematics) , social dilemma , social psychology , social value orientations , psychology , individualism , collectivism , dilemma , political science , epistemology , microeconomics , economics , philosophy , machine learning , politics , computer science , law
Investigating whether benevolent or universalism value types are more closely related to social value orientations, a survey of 190 undergraduates elicited value priorities, social value orientations and preferences for cooperation in a social dilemma. In analyses of the value priorities a benevolence, a universalism and several individualistic value types were revealed. It was found that the priority ascribed to universalism but not to benevolence values successfully discriminated between participants whose social value orientations were classified as prosocial or proself. Almost as accurately as social value orientations, value priorities predicted preferences for cooperation in the social dilemma.