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Dynamic Influences of Culture on Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma

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ID23368809
AuthorsRosanna Y M Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Rosanna Yin-mei Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China), Ying-Yi Hong (0000-0003-3172-9243, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hong Kong, China, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume16
Issue6
Pages429-434
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0956-7976 • E-ISSN: 1467-9280
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01552.x
PMID15943667
OpenAlexW2220771499
LanguageEN
Citations received66
References cited26

This study tested whether priming of cultural symbols activates cultural behavioral scripts and thus the corresponding behaviors, and also whether the behaviors activated are context-specific. Specifically, to activate the cultural knowledge of Chinese-American bicultural participants, we primed them with Chinese cultural icons or American cultural icons. In the control condition, we showed them geometric figures. Then, the participants played the Prisoner's Dilemma game with friends or strangers (the context manipulation). As expected, participants showed more cooperation toward friends when Chinese cultural knowledge was activated than when American cultural knowledge was activated. By contrast, participants showed a similarly low level of cooperation toward strangers after both Chinese and American culture priming. These findings not only support previous evidence on culture priming of social judgment and self-construals, but also (a) provide the first evidence for the effects of culture priming on behaviors and (b) demonstrate the boundary condition of culture priming.

China · Chinese culture · Context (archaeology) · Cultural diversity · Cultural group selection · Dilemma · Ethnic group · Priming (agriculture) · Prisoner's dilemma · Social environment · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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