Social Dilemma Behavior of Individuals from Highly Individualist and Collectivist Cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig D Parks (0000-0001-5299-093X, Washington State University), Anh D Vu (0000-0002-9552-2383, Siena College) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 708-718 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002794038004006 |
| OpenAlex | W2127753380 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 25 |
Existing studies of social dilemmas in other cultures report patterns of behavior that are very similar to that of American subjects. This has held even in cultures that are seemingly quite different from the United States in terms of their emphasis on the collective over the individual. We argue that, in fact, these cultures are not as different from the United States with regard to collectivity as they seem. In our study, we contrast the American—the most individualistic of all cultures—with the Vietnamese, an extremely collectivist culture. In the first study, American and South Vietnamese subjects played a number of trials of a public goods or resource dilemma game. The patterns of cooperation among the Americans were typical of most social dilemma studies. The Vietnamese, however, cooperated at an exceptionally high rate. In a second study, subjects were pitted against a variety of preprogrammed strategies that varied as to their toughness. The Americans responded in predictable ways, but the Vietnamese were again extremely cooperative, even when competing against an All-D (100% competition) strategy. The results suggest that cultural norms contribute somewhat to mixed-motive behavior
Collectivism · Competition (biology · Dilemma · Individualism · Individualistic culture · Political science · Social dilemma · Sociology · Vietnamese · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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From Games to Giving
Navigating cultural dissonance
Understanding and Avoiding AI Failures
Collectivism Impairs Team Performance When Relational Goals Conflict With Group Goals
Gain–loss frames and cooperation in two-person social dilemmas
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust
Rethinking individualism and collectivism
Culture, sex and social context influence brain-to-brain synchrony
Self-Construal and Cooperation
Sustainability following adversity
Prosocial behavior following immortality priming
A life course perspective on the wartime migrations of northern Vietnamese war survivors
Equilibria analysis in social dilemma games with Skinnerian agents
Cultural differences in conflict resolution strategies
Not in my back yard
The Effect of Group Decision Making on Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
The effect of fuel price fluctuations on utilitarian cycling rates
Interactive effects of levels of individualism–collectivism on cooperation
Longitudinal relations between perceived economic inequality and prosocial behavior among Chinese adolescents
Culture, Cooperation, and the General Welfare
An Exploration of Leisure Motivation as Cultural Practices
Cooperation in social dilemmas and allocentrism
Gain-loss frames and cooperation in two-person social dilemmas
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Anticipatory Dying
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Pancultural self-enhancement
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Social psychology in cross-cultural perspective
Social Dilemmas
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Cross-Cultural Psychology
Interpersonal Relations
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Reciprocity and the induction of cooperation in social dilemmas
The effects of social motives on behavior in social dilemmas in two cultures
Exit from the group as an individualistic solution to the free rider problem in the United States and Japan
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Reciprocity and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
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Individualism and collectivism
The self and social behavior in differing cultural contexts
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An Etic-Emic Analysis of Individualism and Collectivism
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |